Bunnyman Is Dead! Long Live The Bunnies!
“In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life.” So true! And what a life you lived! It is as if you followed the advice of Helen Keller who stated that “life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” You were the ultimate playboy who frolicked through life long enough to become an icon in your own time. Hefner, founder of the Playboy empire, once explained the ways in which women were like rabbits. The bunny “has a sexual meaning”, you said, “because it’s a fresh animal, shy, vivacious, jumping — sexy. First it smells you, then it escapes, then it comes back, and you feel like caressing it, playing with it. A girl resembles a bunny. Joyful, joking.”
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The Bunnyman is gone. And we all know that bunnies live longer and happier lives when they are spayed or neutered.
R.I.P. Hugh Hefner. You are gone at the age of 91 but an endangered subspecies of Marsh rabbit called Sylvilagus palustris hefneri is named after you in honor of financial support that you provided. So, you are not forgotten.
“I am a kid in a candy store,” you famously said. “I dreamed impossible dreams, and the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. I’m the luckiest cat on the planet.” You understood what Jame Dean meant when he said: “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” After all you yourself stated: “Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.”
