Yet the bond that existed between these physical opposites would survive decades, from their boyhoods in Evanston, Illinois, and even beyond Cox's death in February 1973 of a heart attack. He was 48.

然而有一种微妙的情感纽带却维系了他们的关系长达数十年之久，这一切要从男孩们在伊利诺斯州埃文斯顿城的少年时代说起，直到威利-考克斯于1973年二月因心脏病意外去世，他只有48岁。