A bit about our fellow Baby Boomer, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen... born in 1949, his father was a bus driver and his mother a legal secretary. He was raised not far from LI, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. His most recent gig, and the inspiration for this post, was performing with his cohorts, the E Street Band, at Super Bowl XLIII.
Bad enough he grew up as a "middle child", but his two siblings were both sisters! To add to his misery, his parents maliciously enrolled him in parochial school (can you feel the pain?). Eventually transferring to public school did not resolve Bruce's conflicts with educational systems, aka authority (again - anyone identifying?).
Despite all these impediments, or maybe because of them, Bruce emerged as the wonder that he is.
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