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wryter2000

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48. My parents got our first TV

Thu Jul 29, 2021, 04:03 PM

Jul 2021

So they could watch the McCarthy hearings. I asked my mother what it was all about, and she answered, "A bad man named McCarthy." I learned my liberalism early.

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