It was his pineapple. Ibid., p. 24: “Hunter had also just gotten out of the Army, and they both ended up living in their broken-down cars in an empty lot in East Palo Alto. Garcia reminisced, ‘Hunter had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he’d gotten from the Army, like five or six big tins, and I had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars.’”
arteries were like pinholes. Office of the Coroner, County of Marin, “Coroner’s Report in the Matter of the Death of Jerome John Garcia” (San Rafael, CA, 1995), p. 1: “[T]he right coronary artery shows focal areas of approximately 30% occlusion by eccentric atherosclerotic plaques. The anterior descending coronary artery in its mid portion shows an area with hemorrhage into an eccentric plaque with over 85-90% occlusion of the lumen, and distal to this are areas of over 85% occlusion by atheromatous material.”
apologize just for being a man. Cf. Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). Cf. also Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994). See also Robert Sheaffer, “Combatting Feminist Ms-Information: Refuting the Most Common Feminist Lies and Pseudo-Scholarship” (link), for a valuable list of similar resources, both online and offline.