“Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.”

— William McKeen

Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 97

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William McKeen (1954) American academic

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“Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.”

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