John Mellencamp
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sew it back up, and make sure that everything was working.
And they told my parents, you know, look, here he is.
He's probably going to die, get encephalitis, and his head's going to fill up with water.
We don't anticipate him living much more than six or seven months.
And I was, fuck, I think I was in fifth grade.
I didn't even know I'd had the operation.
And some kid in my class said, hey, Mellencamp, what's that big scar on the back of your neck?
Don't forget, now we're talking, you know, 1957, 58, 60, maybe.
I didn't even know there was a scar back there.
It wasn't like I was going.
And my parents never told me.
So I came home and I asked my old man, I said, Dad, what's with the scar on the back of my neck?
And he goes, oh, don't worry about it.
You had an operation when you were born.