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June 23, 2016

What You Never Knew About Ringo

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Abject poverty. Absent drunken father (he later acquired a good stepfather, though).
Starr was grievously ill twice in childhood—the first time with post-appendectomy peritonitis that put him in a coma, the second with tuberculosis which he contracted at 13, a scourge one would have thought had practically disappeared from the developed world at that time. But I guess Starkey’s world as a youngster wasn’t all that developed. As a result, he missed a lot of school, and ended up an early school dropout. He was placed in a TB sanitorium at the age of 13 and stayed for two years, and after he had emerged he never attended school again. More at neo-neocon Ringo Starr, ordinary lad

Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 23, 2016 9:42 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Good man.

Posted by: Casey Klahn [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 23, 2016 3:20 PM

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