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Grins

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13. I AM!!

Reply to electric_blue68 (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 9, 2024, 04:53 PM

Oct 2024

And you bought that paper because of Breslin and Hamil. Breslin in particular.

I was in college in Wisconsin then and often exposed to and read the Chicago newspapers and found - Mike Royko! He was Chicago’s Breslin and vice versa.

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