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‘Rent’ creator’s friends reveal tragic, true tale of ‘Tick Tick … Boom!’

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created “Rent” — was born of sadness, anger and frustration.In the late 1980s, Larson learned that Matt O’Grady, his best friend from childhood, had contracted HIV.

Working in the theater, Larson knew several people who had AIDS. Now it was threatening someone he’d known most of his life.“Matt’s diagnosis shocked him,” Victoria Leacock, a close friend of Larson’s from college, told The Post. “He realized that you don’t know how much time you have.

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