The Upbringing of Charles Dederich

In the early 1940s at age 29, Charles Dederich caught meningitis which nearly killed him and left his face partly paralyzed. At one point, a friend found him passed out on the kitchen floor and told him, fat so if you don't go to Alcoholics Anonymous, you will die. And God bless whoever decided that should be my picture. It's a really good picture. We should all be so lucky to be immortalized looking like Bert Reynolds.