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Monday, May 12, 2008

In These Times, Unable to Live Gracefully

A STORY

When I met B, my boyfriend through most of my twenties, in 1984, he was the drummer in a band called Crash. ..

The songwriter and lead singer in Crash was Mark Dumais. ..

Mark moved to London in search of fame and pop fortune. He died of AIDS a few years later. The guy playing tambourine in this video, a very sweet man who also played saxophone in the band, died of AIDS, too, a few years later. B and I separated in 1989, and I didn't keep in touch with most of our friends from that time who were really B's friends more than mine.


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