Death
De Vit was HIV positive, but he kept that to himself, 38 of 44 previous boyfriends from that year were quite shocked to hear. On 2 July 1998, at the age of 40, he died of bronchial failure. After De Vit's death, a conflict kept his records off the shelves for many years, but finally a compilation album of his songs and remixes was released called Are You All Ready? on Tidy Trax records.
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Tamely endured a bridge of wondrous length
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