t him with kind words she laughed at his sad state as he lay in the hospital. In a flash he got rid of her. After that he got a Nobel Peace prize for a new book called "The Old Man and the Sea". During a plane trip, the plane crashed leaving him with a concussion, paralysis of the sphincter, first degree burns in his face, arm and head, a sprained right arm and shoulder, a crushed vertebra, and a ruptured liver, spleen and kidney. He was in continuos pain for quite a while. He was latter committed to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Before he went to Minnesota he had a big birthday party that took 2 months to plan. There was champaign from pairs, Chinese food from London, codfish from Madrid. There was a shooting booth, fireworks specialist, flamenco dancers, waiters, barmen, and cooks from all over the world. This party lasted 24 hours from noon of July 21st to noon July 22nd. There were guests from allover. Guest that where invited where General C. T. Lanham from Washington, Ernest's old pals from Paris, Italian Royalty and the Maharajah of Behar. When it was allover Ernest said "What I enjoyed most about the party is that these old friends still care enough to come so far. The thing about old friends now s that there are so few of them" There where a couple shocks in his life. One of them was the death of one of his closest friend which died of cancer. Another shock was when he was forced to move out of his only true home during the Cuban revolution came there, and the last shock was when his black lab died, he was his one true companion. He would lie at Ernest's feet when he was writing. On April 23rd 1961, Ernest tried to kill himself by putting a gun to his head. At about 7:30 a.m. on July 2, 1961, Mary Hemingway, his wife at the time, heard a gun go off in the other room. She hurried towards the sound of the gunshot. Down stairs by the gun rack she saw Ernest with his favorite 12 gauge shot gin whish was laid with silver...
