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Damned amazing song.

I was a huge Lennon fan growing up.

Late in high school I went to a Baptist church with the high school girlfriend, and a couple years later I was attending what I imagine must be the premiere fundamentalist Christian university.

I was on a cleaning crew there one night when during lunch break one of the others said something like "Did you hear John Lennon was shot tonight?"

I didn't want to sound too interested fear mild fear of revealing some past big time idolatry. So I waited a bit, and said something like "Oh? Shot?"

"Yep. Shot an killed...."

I finished my shift in a daze that may have bordered on coma, came back to my dorm room (FOUR roommates...) and played radio stations definitely forbidden by the university, especially at something like 2:00am.

That was the beginning of the end of high-end religiosity for me. I started reviving Beatles songs on pianos in small practice rooms, sorta kinda begging to get caught performing "worldly" music.

And of course I can remember the scene where "I learned the news today, oh boy" as though it were yesterday.

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I'm sorry for the bad memories in that regard, Inquiry. Lennon was intrinsically talented and a good force in the world, sincerely.

I was three years "to be" when Lennon was taken from us (as I was born in 1983). But growing up I heard The Beatles and Lennon's solo stuff, of course. I missed out on the actual *presence* of his time, though. The music carries through, though, indeed.

Also, I didn't know you attended a Christian college. Have you ever been, or are you now, a "man of the cloth"? A believer or former-believer in theology? I, myself, sort of see myself as a either a "former Catholic" or "non-practicing Catholic" - or both, or neither. As I attended a Catholic school 1-4 grade, but then was quite happy to attend a public school in another state in 5th grade when me and the family relocated for my Father's job at the time. I was learning both Science (traditional Science) AND Computer Science simultaneously at that school, as the former was not taught at all in the previous school, and the latter was relatively new to ALL schools (I would imagine - it was 1993, and hadn't heard of a lot of "computer courses" going on in that era outside of folks in college).

But since then, I more or less stayed away from religious trains of thought, as I "did all that" when I was young, and the subject hasn't appealed much to me in the years since.

Anyway, hope you're well.

And ~bartender, another coffee, if I may? I am having one now but two is better than one!