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Bargain Bicycle

t was 1942. World War II was affecting everyone. For 14-year-old farm boys like me, just out of grade school, life was good—if you had a bicycle. I had a bicycle, until the day a man dropped by our Pennsylvania farm to talk to my dad and spied

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