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Jean Michelle
Jean Michelle was a genius level person self-educated he had been to some good schools like St. Anne's in Brooklyn but finished at city as school that's what he attended. There's a famous story where he threw a cream pie in the principal's face at graduation and he never went back right. He had this ability to flip through an art book or an atlas anatomy text and absorb almost everything in itHe also had a photographic memory you know people tossed around that term Jean Michelle actually did have a photographic memory he could recall conversations that I had with them just small and tall conversations three years later.
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