"Today is Gus* 50th birthday"

I went out briefly with Gus when I was in Lafayette, Indiana in 2004.  Gus father comitted suicide on G.'s birthday.  G. had a severe psychological breakdown shortly after I met him.  I escorted him to the psych. hospital where he tried to hang himself................He once acted in the play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"