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JulesJordan.comRonnie James Dio, the deceased heavy metal singer who served as Ozzy Osbourne's replacement in Black Sabbath from 1980 to 1982, was a very tiny man with a very tiny sense of humor. He was born in the middle of World War II and brought up on opera, so one can understand why laughs were hard to come by in his youth. But when I went to interview him in 2000, I hoped the laughable fact that he was barely five feet tall and sang with a woman's voice yet had still managed to sell more than 47 million records in his career would not be lost on him. Here's how I learned that hope is a pointless and deceiving crutch for fools.
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