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delichon 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a cen...

My grandfather was born in the 1890s. He watched the first moon landing with us. He had tears in his eyes and said "when I was a boy I carried flint and steel to start a fire".

aaronax 5 months ago [–]

When I was a boy I had to call the library to get the definition of a word that was not in my family's dictionary. 39 years old now.

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