A Fun Fact for Teenagers and Literature Buffs

Because of wikipedia, the word research has lost much of it's meaning. 

Regardless, I was researching Ernest Hemingway and, for one reason or another, I read about his suicide via shotgun blast to the face in 1961. As gruesome as that is, I read a bit more that just added to the grotesqueness of it all - he purchased the shotgun from Abercrombie & Fitch. 

I'm going to let that last part marinate for a bit. 

Apparently, Abercrombie & Fitch, the now hip clothing store for tweens, was once an elite excursion and fire-arms retailer up until the late 80s before it was bought out by The Limited and turned into what it is today. 

How weird is that? A popular clothing store with a legacy of self-inflicted shotgun blasts to the face. Although it's kind of appropriate - everytime I go into an Abercrombie & Fitch I want to kill myself.