Reply #66: I have another odd connection [View All]

[many a good man]

Thanks, Granny. That's very nice.

I have another odd connection to the Kennedy family. The Kennedy baby died shortly before I was born. I was diagnosed with the same heart condition and was not expected to survive so I was named after him.

Luckily, his death brought a lot of attention in the medical community to this condition so I was screened for it and had surgery at six weeks. I survived. I guess I owe the Kennedy's my gratitude.

Kennedy must have really had some effect on the people of this country. When I was in high school I had a job with an antiques dealer. They would go to estate sales where for a flat fee you could buy everything left in someone's home.

I was amazed at how many people kept scrap books containing photographs and clippings of the assassination. People from all walks of life from very rich to very poor. The store owner kept hundreds of these albums in a room and it was really something to see. I know my grandmother made three scrap books but I thought she was the only one. Has anyone else heard of people doing such a thing?