Anecdote #61: One morning my mom came bursting into my room and, with tears in her eyes, frantically told me John Lennon had been shot and he was dead! "It's all over the TV!" During this same period of time in my life she had been dating a super cool cat named Jeff Leonard. He was a disk Jockey and pretty well known over the air-waves in the DC Metro Area. In my morning stupor I misheard her and thought she had said Jeff had been shot and was dead! I was devastated and ran downstairs to see on the TV how this horror could've happened. As the Today show came back from commercials they continued their updates on the tragedy. The pictures they showed of the deceased rock star, to my joy, was obviously not of Jeff Leonard and I was ecstatic and relieved to tell my mother she had made a terrible mistake, "Mom, Jeff's not dead, that’s not Jeff!!!".