Early Life
Jim Norton was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, to a family from the Duncan Avenue area of Jersey City.
Norton dropped out of high school in his senior year and never graduated. He entered rehab soon after, at age 17. A couple of years later he attended Middlesex County College, where he earned a B in English, an F in Probability and Statistics, an F in Western Civilization and an F in Biology. A year later he obtained his GED, after being sober for around three years.
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