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I must say that it is a horrible decade for the children of the 1970s-1980s.

The early portion of the 2000s decade saw Charles Bronson and Barry White leaving us. The later one had the Pope John Paul II, Arafat, Gary Gygax, Luciano Pavarotti (guys like me remember his contribution to Bono’s “Miss Sarajevo“, personally my favorite song of the 1990s), Michael Jackson and some more I forgot but all of them left their marks, small or big, in the pop culture of the two mentioned 20th century decades.

Now, it is the turn of Patrick Swayze who left us after a long battle against cancer at age 57. He is most famous for his roles in Ghost and Dirty Dancing. Nerds and B-movies fans will also remember one of his earlier role in Red Dawn. Tearjerking movie fans will also remember City of Joy. This is enough for me to state that he was one of the icons of the 1980s. Now he is gone, watching Ghost will not bear the same feelings anymore.

RIP Patrick.

He left us.

I remembered him as the lead of the TV series “Kung Fu”, as Justin, that dick, in the TV epic “North and South” starring Patrick Swayze, and as Bill from “Kill Bill”.

Now, that final duel in Kill Bill vol.2 have a… weird flavor once you know that he is no more.