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[[Image:Harvardid.jpg|thumb|200px|Cuomo's Harvard student ID.]] | [[Image:Harvardid.jpg|thumb|200px|Cuomo's Harvard student ID from 1995.]] | ||
By Cuomo's own account, he spent a miserable year in a single room. The previous spring he had undergone surgery to correct a physical defect (his right leg was almost two inches shorter than the left). During that first year at Harvard his right leg was in a metal frame; every day he would tighten the screws to elongate the bone. Between classes, Cuomo took painkillers and rested in bed. "I grew a long beard and walked around with a cane," he said. "The only time I could write songs was when my frozen dinner was in the microwave. The rest of the time I was doing homework." His only consolation was listening to opera, mostly Puccini. During this period he wrote the songs for ''[[Pinkerton]]''. He dropped out of Harvard at about the same time, two semesters short of graduating. | By Cuomo's own account, he spent a miserable year in a single room. The previous spring he had undergone surgery to correct a physical defect (his right leg was almost two inches shorter than the left). During that first year at Harvard his right leg was in a metal frame; every day he would tighten the screws to elongate the bone. Between classes, Cuomo took painkillers and rested in bed. "I grew a long beard and walked around with a cane," he said. "The only time I could write songs was when my frozen dinner was in the microwave. The rest of the time I was doing homework." His only consolation was listening to opera, mostly Puccini. During this period he wrote the songs for ''[[Pinkerton]]''. He dropped out of Harvard at about the same time, two semesters short of graduating. | ||