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A Final Thought About Final Thoughts

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Also from the Rolling Stone interview:

Q:  “Jimmy, when you do leave us, how would you like to be remembered? What would you like people to say about you?”

Jimmy Buffett:  “I’d say ‘He had a good time and made a lot of people happy’ would be good.  Yeah, that’d be good.”

KC’s View:

Amen.

RIP, Jimmy Buffett.

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