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How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, kennedy had heroes. because he had heroes, he went into politics. [kennedy liked sir walter scott, king arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] if he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

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How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, kennedy had heroes. because he had heroes, he went into politics. [kennedy liked sir walter scott, king arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] if he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

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