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You Are My Sunshine.
by Gerard J. St. John
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Rated "G" by the Author.

       
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     Sixty-four years after the fact, an old song in a recent movie turns back the clock to a different time, and a different world.
It is one of those songs that everyone knows. They know the tune, and they know the words.

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull 8/22/2014
Thanks for filling me in on the origins of the song. I sing it often to my personal, "Sunshine."

In 1956, in our ninth-grade class, we accepted a girl from Hungary, one of the refugees from that brief, tragic revolution that failed… Later to succeed. She quickly became a normal part of the class. As for fight pickers, I seem to have run into a lot of them throughout my school years. One guy, in my freshman year in college, had a reputation for sucker punching people and knocking them out. Unfortunately, some of these characters go to jail and some, become bosses.

Ron

Where have all the nuns gone? I don't know, I'm not never was Catholic. ;-)

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