It was the summer of 1964, when we were in 4th grade, that I actually met and got to know Larry Federline; I'd been caught & busted by the nuns at St. Martin's for lighting a candle in the church for somebody who I'd heard on TV had been wounded in Vietnam, all the while Larry got away with chugging the sacramental wine in the sacristy and he didn't even get caught. :-) After that Larry wanted me to go into the church at recess with him almost daily. Sometimes he'd bring the bottle into the basement bathroom and try to talk me into doing a belt, but I was too scared.
Larry and I remained friends on through grade school and on into high school after that. It was a good while out of high school that I ran into Larry again and he was still running wild. I always thought Larry had pretty progressive tastes in music and he followed me around to local clubs I gigged at. With a heavy heart I share with you today that I learned my grade school friend Larry passed away in Vermont suffering from emphysema back on September 26, 2005. Larry is interred at Parklawn Cemetery. RIP Larry
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