Re: Making money from Java

On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 17:44:22 -0600, "Judson McClendon"
<judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Jimmy, your comment reminded me of something one of my kids told me a few
>days ago. They said Ray Charles' blindness was psychosomatic (real, but
>emotionally caused, not physically caused), and that seeing his father
>killed when he was young had brought it on. Perhaps I am the only person on
>the planet who didn't know this. I was dumbfounded that I hadn't heard
>before. Was this common knowledge?

This is the first I read of it.

The movie had him witness his brother dying.

Anyway "common knowledge" can be "true knowledge", but often isn't.
.

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