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TOPIC: Remembering Larry

Cheryel Lemley-McRoy, Texas

Date: Mar 1, 2008

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Letter to Gail McFarland:Tricia just called me to tell me the news she had just heard on TBN. I had not heard much about Larry since I saw him last. He had come over to me before church at COTW. I was sitting with Scott. Larry gave me a rambling apology and then left. Scott said, "Who was that?" I havent thought about him in years. I think he left COTW after Pastor Jack criticized him for that album with the snakeskin cowboy boots on the cover. I Googled Larry and read about all that he had been doing. Wikipedia credits him with a lot of things and connections with well-known stars. He had an interesting life. His web site gives a place to leave condolences. I felt like I wanted to, but I don't know what I'd say. I know he got married after we split up, but I don't think that lasted. None of the info on him that I found said anything about spouses and/or children. Remember his sister got caught up in the Tony Alamo cult? I wish I knew what happened to her. Do you remember her name? I remember Mark Lindley had a crush on her and it hurt him when she married someone in the cult. The last time I saw her she was with the cult passing out leaflets on Hollywood Blvd. I think I met Larry through Mark. They were best friends. Have you heard anything about Larry since Hollywood Pres? It's hard to hear that someone I knew just died. And he was our age. They said he died of heart disease. I'm trying to remember, but I think he once told me that he had rheumatic fever (or something like that) as a child. That will weaken your heart. I think that's how he lost his ability to smell. He was always a heath food nut. I remember him and Mark making a concoction of peanut butter, honey, wheat germ, and powdered milk. And that's all he'd eat for a while. I don't think I have any pictures of us together anymore. I remember that if I sat really quietly, he'd let me stay when he was writing songs. He'd write snippets and phrases on little pieces of paper and then go through them and put them together. He took me up in the Columbia Records Tower there on Vine once. There were little rooms with a piano where people came to write music. It was fascinating to watch. Larry was with me when I went to court to change my name back. After court, we went to Oliveras Street in Old LA and had my first marguerita. Larry didnt like the salt and wiped it off. It was funny. We giggled at that. Larry was quirky. He could be an absent-minded sky pilot at times and so aware at others. It seemed like he enjoyed attention and fame, but was uncomfortable with it at the same time. Lance Bowen and I were sitting up in the choir loft at Hollywood Presbyterian when Larry gave one of his first concerts there. When he finished and the crowd jumped to their feet, roaring and applauding, Larry hung his head and with his arm raised straight up, pointed to the ceiling. He was saying Not me: Him. Lance saw that and sketched Larrys upraised arm in a take-off of the black power fist of the era. Lances drawing became a widely circulated poster and I think it was on t-shirts, too. It became the symbol of the Jesus Movement. Larry took me to see Hair when it was at the Aquarius Theater. After the show he took me up on stage and we met the cast. They all knew him and wanted him to come back. He told me he had been in rehearsals with them but quit before the show opened because the whole cast was required to join together in TM and chant before each show and he would not compromise Christ. One thing about Larry was he was not a wishy-washy Christian. He knew Jesus and that was that. Its amazing to think that Larry, right now, is beholding the face of Jesus. What an awesome thing! To think that Larry is on the other side, now! Somehow Im envious. Sometimes, I think can hardly wait. I tear up when I imagine seeing Jesus. It will all be worth it. Cheryel __________________

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