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Kid in a Candy Store

In 1958, I was going to a small three-room schoolhouse in central Montana. At lunch time, rather than all the kids going to the general store, they would designate only one person to go buy candy. You would tell that person what candy you wanted, then you would give them the money and they would return with your candy. This particular day it was my turn to go to

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