Well that was a relief.
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Yeah, the sentence definitely could have used a second draft. OP should write for Hollywod with the range of emotions I just went through.
All in under a minute too.
I sure hope it took you less than a minute to read that headline.
He’s allowed to?
Playboy Mansion is a seedy shithole coming apart at the seams though. It’s the sort of place you’d put a party together and fight the animate mold growing on the walls. But when you find the treasure chest, it’ll just be full of dirty dildoes. Not worth the dungeon crawl to get there.
He nicknamed his unit "the giving tree".
Personal life
From around 1967 to 1975, Silverstein lived on a houseboat in Sausalito, California. He also owned homes on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; Greenwich Village, New York; and Key West, Florida.[34] He never married, and according to the 2007 biography A Boy Named Shel, had sex with "hundreds, perhaps thousands of women".[2] He was also a frequent presence at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion and Playboy Clubs.
Silverstein met a woman from Sausalito named Susan Taylor Hastings at the Playboy Mansion,[35] and they had a daughter named Shoshanna Jordan Hastings (b. June 30, 1970).[36] Susan died on June 29, 1975, one day before Shoshanna's fifth birthday,[36] and Shoshanna went to live with her uncle and aunt in Baltimore, Maryland.[35] Shoshanna died of a cerebral aneurysm on April 24, 1982, at age 11.[37] Silverstein's 1981 book A Light in the Attic is dedicated to her.[35] Silverstein later met Key West native Sarah Spencer, who drove a tourist train and inspired Silverstein's song "The Great Conch Train Robbery".[38][39][40] They had a son named Matthew De Ver (b. November 10, 1984),[41] who later became a New York City–based songwriter and producer.[42]
Of course he had a boat.
Because of the implication.
Baby it’s cold outside…
I am admittedly not familiar with most of his work directly, but I had no idea that Shel Silverstein was a man
That fits for the time. The Playboy mansion was swinging in the 60's and 70's..
possibly thousands of women
A new Dschingis Khan? LMAO
Khan made lots of kids tho. This one did it just for the love of the game.
Okay..