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murielm99

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6. I was in fourth grade.

Reply to Elwood P Dowd (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 19, 2016, 06:41 AM

Jan 2016

It was very cold here in Illinois, too. I remember it, because even though I was young, I had heard quite a bit of his music.

It is hard to imagine what might have been.

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