WHAT MAKES JACK TICK?

For at least 11 years, the head of Jack Husband, 20, of Hollis, Oklahoma, “ticked-tocked” night and day, and might have done so all his life. “Until somebody told me, I just thought everybody ticked,” he said. We are told that Mr Husband, a student at Southwestern State College in Weatherford, Oklahoma, had been examined by more than 200 doctors (!), none of whom had been able to learn the cause of the fast ticking, nor its exact location. It had never occurred to him that he was different from other people until, at the age of nine, he was wrestling with another boy. “What’s that?” the boy asked. He had noticed the metallic tick in young Husband’s head. A few days later he told his parents, Dr and Mrs…

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