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Re: Kate was never institutionalized, right?

From: ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi)
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1992 11:52:38 -0800
Subject: Re: Kate was never institutionalized, right?
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Keywords: debunk a rumor
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Organization: UC Davis Dept of Applied Science at LLNL
References: <1992Jan24.223903.21763@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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In article <1992Jan24.223903.21763@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> ebh@mink.att.COM (Edward B Horch) writes:
>There is a rumor going around in this area that at some point after
>the Tour of Life, Kate was institutionalized.  Now, in the six years
>I've been listening to Kate, and aspiring to Katefandom, I've never
>heard anything else about this having happened.  So, like, did it?

No.  In one of the video clips of J.J. Jackson talking about Kate on
MTV (back in 1985), he says something to the effect that Kate was
"fighting off bouts of mental illness."  Where he got this idea, nobody
knows, because I've never heard a reliable source say it was true.

Ed (the other one)
ed@wente.llnl.gov