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Originally Posted by ILay
Hi Justo,
well I hope Ron is ok.
I can not say we were friends but I always considered him an honest person and a patriot of his country.
Let me know if I can by any chance help (moneywise or any other way).
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Just sent you an email.
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Dear ILay - I met Ronbo on another message board a couple of years ago and exchanged many EMails and telephone calls with him, the last being on about the 15th of January this year. He related to me that he was very depressed and drinking heavily, but did not say anything about suicide. Ronbo did say he was thinking about "leaving town" and "walking to California." I did meet him in person last year when business took me to Orlando, Florida. Ronbo did not look the least like his picture on his blog, but rather Eastern European looking. If I were casting for a movie and looking for an American to play a Russian, I would pick him. I do recall him saying he was adopted and he thought his birth mother was of either Polish or Russian ancestry. This may explain in part why he posted on this message board.
Is Ronbo still alive? I honestly don't know. I do know he was having trouble with finding a decent job. This was nearly impossible because of his arrest record. I do recall him saying that the USA treated him worse than Russia treated Solzhenitsyn, whom he admired as "The greatest writer and patriot of the 20th century."
My EMail is
Shakespeare_1948@yahoo.com