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Tanuki

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2. At age 12, my grandfather was a child laborer in a coal mine.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Aug 3, 2017, 08:29 PM

Aug 2017

It was common in coal country. Only 2% of the population in his county graduated from high school. The average Republican these days would be fine with that situation returning.

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