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Amazing.
Abolishinist
(1,313 posts)I only wish, after having deduced his 'secret' early on, they would have played along and let him go on a little bit longer.
tblue37
(65,488 posts)Sogo
(4,993 posts)Children really do take these things to heart....
When Kennedy was shot, I was 13, and my younger brother was 5. I remember that he was scared to go to bed that night because he was afraid the "man who shot Kennedy would come and get him." And that was just from having seen the news about it on television (not being a witness to it, like this man was).
Polybius
(15,483 posts)Everyone in the mall was in shock. My mother said it was that curse about every President elected with a "0" at the end of the year dies. When he lived, she said "Reagan broke the curse."
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)former9thward
(32,082 posts)His fall and head injury coming to the program probably led to his death.