Fact #100586
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Short story:
Aspiring country music singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson gets fired from his day job in Louisiana, USA, as a helicopter pilot.
Full article:
Kris Kristofferson : April 15, 1969, was probably the darkest hour. It looked to me and to all my friends, I am sure, as if I had been on a downhill slide from the day I got out of the Army. My wife and I separated. I had two children, one of whom had just been born with a birth defect that cost $10,000 to put right. The night before I was to see the boss who was going to fire me from my pilot's job, I was staying in an old hotel in Louisiana so bad it looked like a horror show.?
I felt, 'I have finally just trashed it just as much as I can. My family is gone. I haven't had any song recorded that's done anything. I'm going to be thrown in jail because I owe $500 a month in child support.'?
Then I went home to this slum tenement in Nashville and I had been robbed. I felt the freedom then of nothing left to lose. I was a failure and it was a very liberating thing. It was lonesome, but I was free and it allowed me to be out all night, every night, pitching songs.
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I felt, 'I have finally just trashed it just as much as I can. My family is gone. I haven't had any song recorded that's done anything. I'm going to be thrown in jail because I owe $500 a month in child support.'?
Then I went home to this slum tenement in Nashville and I had been robbed. I felt the freedom then of nothing left to lose. I was a failure and it was a very liberating thing. It was lonesome, but I was free and it allowed me to be out all night, every night, pitching songs.
(Source : not known)