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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015449)" |
| source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" |
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| date: "2026-01-01" |
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| The event was sponsored by the First Church of the Last Laugh. Their |
| sound equipment was surrounded by yellow plastic tape warning, " Police |
| Line--Do Not Cross." Somebody in a clown costume handed me a three- |
| foot section of that tape. |
| The celebration featured music, comedy and a traditional free |
| brunch, along with such favorite rituals as the Sock Exchange and the Leap |
| of Faith. Kesey was also in town to speak at the benefit, which was held |
| only because Jan happened to be the daughter of a ground-breaking |
| literary celebrity, even though he had abandoned her mother when she |
| was pregnant with Jan. |
| I said to my friend Julius, who drove me there, "It's not enough |
| any more just to be a sperm donor." |
| Jan had met her father only twice. The first time, she was nine. The |
| second time, six years later, he sat there, drinking a fifth of whiskey and |
| watching The Beverly Hillbillies. Jan would eventually die of kidney failure |
| at the age of forty-four, never having fulfilled her fantasy of becoming |
| drinking buddies with her father, who died when she was a teenager. |
| Now, backstage, someone I knew handed me a baggie of what I |
| assumed to be marijuana. I thanked her and put it in my pocket. Ah, yes, |
| one of the perks of the benefit biz. Later, as the final members of the |
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