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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laurie Marr" data-source="post: 351412" data-attributes="member: 175">I always thought that was the case anyway. It explains so much about JR’s psychology, his daddy issues and his rivalry with Cliff.  JR’s obsession with the legitimacy of the Ewing name, the Ewing blood and the Ewing breed was perhaps compensatory  for deeper anxieties. If memory serves, I think Raintree’s book hinted at it too. I could also imagine an alternative plot where an ailing JR discovered his mystery illness to be Neurofibromatosis.</blockquote>