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In that same spirit, you should take everything you see on this site with a grain of salt and do your own due diligence.

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  • Down Down Down … in a line of fire

    When I was 13, I had a friend who lived in the house behind me. Jimmy H. and I went camping at his brothers farm, somewhere in the country. We were on our own and totally unsupervised. I was ready to go. I had my new sleeping bag and everything. After the sun had set…

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  • Candy Inflation

    When in first grade, one day I got lucky and found a penny in the school yard. I decided to go to a local store called HART pharmacy and buy myself a piece of penny candy. I grabbed a piece from the jar and put my penny on the counter. Mr. Hart looked at me…

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  • Best 80’s Bookcase Games

    This is a list of what I think are the best of the 80s games that I played as a kid. I recently purchased a few on eBay, to see if I can get back that ole’ feeling. Now I just have to find someone to play with 🙁

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  • Lower, Lower, Lower Middle Class

    In second grade, my mom told me to not wear out my good shoes because they did not have money to buy new ones. Well, I must have played rough that day because the heel fell off. The entire next week, mom made me go to school in my bedroom slippers. On Saturday, after my…

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  • Boys Will Be Boys

    When I was a kid, I held the family record for most trips to the hospital. It was so bad, my mom was investigated for child abuse. Here are a few memorable one. One day, we got a new dryer and my older brother Wayne and I were playing with the box in our front…

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  • Just Shut Up

    When I was 16, after I had my license for a few weeks, my dad asked me to go to Kroger’s to get some broccoli for dinner. My sister Jill went too. She would not SHUT UP and complained the entire trip. This distracted me. The car in front had no break lights and had…

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