“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
He was clearly meant to be alive for every bit of his 61 years. In his lifetime, he survived a great number of illnesses including malaria, anthrax, pneumonia, a ruptured kidney, a ruptured liver, a fractured skull, a crushed vertebra, skin cancer, and hepatitis. Ernest even survived 3 car crashes, not to mention those 2 plane crashes within 2 days too!
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