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Ironic TwistsMay 24, 2026

The Eye-Drop Cap

The Eye-Drop Cap Tennessee Williams won two Pulitzers. He wrote 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' He died on February 25, 1983 at the Hotel Elysée in New York. The cause was not pills or alcohol, as papers first reported. He had a habit of holding an eye-drop cap in his teeth. That night, he inhaled it.

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