The poet John Finlay, America’s Baudelaire, died of a disease bred out of his own sins, but he prepared himself to see Truth face-to-face. While much of his life was consumed with religion, philosophy, and literature, and while he read his way into the Church through his admiration of Thomas Aquinas, he also secretly indulged in the homosexual subculture. Baudelaire lived and died in misery and sin. Finlay died of a disease bred out of his own sins, but he used what time he had to repent and to prepare himself for that everlasting vision.