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He was the small boy with the enormous eyes who begged a gunfighter not to ride away, never knowing he would become the one to leave too soon. Brandon DeWilde\u2019s life moved at the same dizzying speed as his rise to fame: Broadway at seven, an Oscar nomination at eleven, his face known in every living room before he was old enough to drive. Yet behind the fame was a gentle young man who insisted he hadn\u2019t lost his childhood, who spoke softly, worked hard, and quietly fell in love with music as much as acting.<\/p>\n

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By the time he turned thirty, he was a father, a husband again, and on the brink of a new artistic chapter. Then the rain came, the van skidded, and a guardrail and parked truck ended what Hollywood assumed would last forever. Brandon\u2019s story is short, but it lingers \u2014 in that final cry of \u201cCome back,\u201d and in the memories of those who still can\u2019t quite believe he\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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