Is it just me or has this been a horrible year for celebrities?  Especially celebrities who I grew up watching or listening to.  This one is, by far, the saddest for me. The Outsiders, Red Dawn , North and South, Youngblood, Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Point Break, and the most awesomely bad movie ever, Road House.

I used to read about Patrick Swayze in teen magazines.  It was a constant internal struggle trying to decide between him and Kevin Bacon when I was a teenager.  I even have a picture of a poster on my wall to prove it.  Excuse the poor quality, it was 1986…

I have no idea why he was wearing overalls and I didn’t care.  I used to have dreams about him riding that horse in North and South. I spared you and cropped myself out of this picture.  It was awful.  I was dressed in full-on ’80′s garb and making some weird face with my eyes closed.  What also got cropped out was the canopy bed and stuffed animals that were in my room too.  This period of time was when I had lots of crushes on celebrities and boys at school but also couldn’t part with my stuffed animals.  The bridge between childhood and adulthood.  He was a huge part of that.

I know enough about Pancreatic Cancer to know the prognosis is usually not good.  I still had hope, since he was a celebrity with money and connections, that he would find some alternative cure that would work.  I’m sad that he’s gone, and with him, another piece of my adolescence.

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