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January 21. The time is around 6:45 pm.  Writer, composer Jonathan Larson was sitting in the very last few rows listening as cast he had chosen for his "about to be" Broadway musical, "Rent" went through one of the final dress rehearsals in The New York Theater W ....

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.... doctor then proceeded to pump his stomach and send him home with a prescription for Toradol, a potent painkiller, in hand. January 22.  Morning. Jonathan Larson telephones Cabrini Medical to query the results of the tests taken the previous evening for food poisoning. The employee on the other end of the line claimed no results could be found but tried to assure Larson that if any thing serious had been found he would have been notified immediately. The rest of the day, Larson spent being nursed by Eddie Rosenstine. Evening.  Brian Carmody found his roommate in bed, short of breath and mumbling in a low voice. The only food he cou ....