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For the past six months or so, he has appeared increasingly edgy, with a fleeting attention span. He started skipping work, and chums feared that he would derail from the fast track. In July he quit his D.A. post to devote all his time to studying for his third try at the bar. Kennedy spent much of the summer in Rapid City and the surrounding Black Hills. He has a good friend there named Bill Walsh, a onetime Roman Catholic priest and part owner of a hotel in Deadwood. The two of them would run several miles a day, go swimming and hike through the hills. Walsh claimed last week that his friend was heading to Rapid City to seek his aid in kicking the habit when he overdosed on the plane. Said Walsh: "Bobby made the commitment to straighten himself out before his crash landing."