Reply #10: He was as the cliche goes, "the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet".

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We have another friend who had his nose smashed in a stupid high school fight. Richard went to the hospital the day after Paul had surgery to re-open his nasal passages. They RE-broke Paul's nose and he had two black eyes and swollen cheeks. Rich made him follow us out the door of the wing he was in, and we got him stoned in the parking lot, naked underneath his hospital robe. When we went back to the door to the wing, it was locked. Richard went to the front of the hospital to demand they open the door so Paul could get back to his hospital room. Richard told the duty nurse that we found Paul in the parking lot wondering around, stoned. He then went on a tirade (jokingly) wondering out loud if it was normal for hospital patients to have to go out to their car to get stoned. That was in 1979.

The nurse who opened the door was laughing so hard I thought she'd pee her pants.