11.4
Lawrence Anderson never forgot January 3rd, 1963. The year his baby girl, Prudence was born. He had such a god-awful memory (could have been the drugs), but that entire day was permanently imprinted into his skull. That and the time his friend Scott in 4th grade pulled his pants down in front of Scott’s older sister, who Lawrence was terribly in love with. Lawrence spent most of his adult life working as an usher, lobby attendant and ticket taker, among other things, at the historic Stadium Theater in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
In 1969, Lawrence died at the Woodstock Music Festival for reasons undocumented. Lawrence wrote several articles for the local Woonsocket paper that were crank bits (much like the now popular fake periodical, the Onion) done from the perspective of a 1920’s vaudville producer aimed at the woes of modern politics and social issues. Those articles, and his daughter Prudence, live on in his memory.
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