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3. Thanks. You're right. I corrected it. It happens I was alive then.
Sun Sep 6, 2020, 07:58 PM
Sep 2020

It was impressive enough on me as a child, that decades later, I vividly recall that one of the "smart kids" at the Bus Stop confidently told us that there was no way the Russians were going to turn those boats around, and thus there was no way there wouldn't be a war in the afternoon.

My mother was stockpiling diet drinks in the basement, because, the advertisements said that they provided "complete nutrition." I suppose we were supposed to emerge from the basement in good health because of our good nutrition.

Frankly, as a child, her claims made me feel better. I was scared shitless.

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