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The Real Alice Who Inspired Arlo Guthrie’s ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ Dead at 83

Alice Brock, the woman who inspired Arlo Guthrie's Thanksgiving classic "Alice's Restaurant," has died, Guthrie confirmed on Friday.

As WBUR reported, she died Thursday after suffering health issues including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In 1967’s “Alice’s Restaurant,” Guthrie chronicles the hilarious true story of how he was disqualified from the Vietnam War draft over the course of his recorded 18-minute monologue. “I think it’s just one of those funny, crazy coincidences that you have an event that takes place on Thanksgiving; therefore it becomes associated with the holiday,” Guthrie told Rolling Stone in 2014.

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