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Twenty-four years ago today, Divine died of cardiomegaly in L.A. while about to film a guest spot on Married With Children, and in the midst of what promised to be his breakthrough into mainstream cinema. It happened when I was in college and pre-Internet, so I had no clue until I came into work a few days later and my co-worker said, "Sorry about your friend Divine," very gingerly. I could not believe her, so I went home that night and searched the recycling pile in my dorm to find the obituary. Still hard to believe he died so young and I never got to see him perform live.