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Boba_Tea_Mochi t1_jbg5e65 wrote

Reply to comment by DukeMaximum in TIL that a 26-story skyscraper pig farm was built in China's Hubei province, and has the capacity to slaughter 1.2 million pigs a year. by DukeMaximum

You got me interested. What happened to Pigpen? Did he continue with his family occupation or did he go on to college and become rich?

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DukeMaximum OP t1_jbg6amm wrote

I honestly didn't keep up with him for long after high school. I know that he hated hog farming (he came from an old-fashioned family who considered kids to be free labor), so I doubt that he followed the family business, especially the way family farms have been bought up by corporate interests. I know that he enlisted in the Marines and spent some time in Japan but, after that, I don't really know. I hope he found himself a career and built a good life.

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Bruce-7891 t1_jbgb9jd wrote

First of all Pigpen would make a cool biker name. Second, that kind of childhood usually only ends 1 of 2 ways.

  1. He is sketchy as hell, lives in the woods and does taxidermy for fun.

  2. He wanted to prove everyone wrong, makes tons of money, lives in a luxury condo, is a neat freak and donates to PETA

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midnightspecial99 t1_jbhc33u wrote

He founded Mother McCree’s jug band with Jerry Garcia before they recruited others and changed their name to the Grateful Dead. He was the only one to not do drugs, but he died of liver failure from too much drinking at 27.

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