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Why Luke Perry's death stops us short
6:19pm PST - March 4th, 2019 luke perry - CNNThe "90210" heatthrob of a generation's youth died too young, a flesh-and-blood human whose passing forces us to face that many of us are now at an age where our teen idols' bodies give out -- which is, inconveniently, also an age where our bodies could do th…