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And that Immortal with AIDS, he turned out, in the end, to have been keeping a big, ugly
secret from Chuckbernieandjim. They didn‟t find this out until after he was dead. They found
out that he had been ...clipping obituaries. The fool! He had been saving mementos of friends
who had died of AIDS. Said Chuckbernieandjim, “You can‟t imagine what something like that
does to the cells of your body.”
If you‟ve done everything else right, your followers won‟t even blink.
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Jeanne Marie Laskas is a freelance writer.
*This article was originally published in the August 1993 issue of Gentleman’s
Quarterly. Copyright 1993 Jeanne Marie Laskas. It is reprinted with permission of the
author.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1994, Volume 11,
Number 1, pages 37-55 .Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
And that Immortal with AIDS, he turned out, in the end, to have been keeping a big, ugly
secret from Chuckbernieandjim. They didn‟t find this out until after he was dead. They found
out that he had been ...clipping obituaries. The fool! He had been saving mementos of friends
who had died of AIDS. Said Chuckbernieandjim, “You can‟t imagine what something like that
does to the cells of your body.”
If you‟ve done everything else right, your followers won‟t even blink.
*********************
Jeanne Marie Laskas is a freelance writer.
*This article was originally published in the August 1993 issue of Gentleman’s
Quarterly. Copyright 1993 Jeanne Marie Laskas. It is reprinted with permission of the
author.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Journal, 1994, Volume 11,
Number 1, pages 37-55 .Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the
bound volume. This fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
