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To: 100American

Spend a lot of time reading these days. Still digging into history through books. If I was younger and had money I’d be on the road to a historical society, or to a library to search through old newspapers on microfilm, or at the National Archives to dig through their records. I spent a lot of my vacations there, going through Civil War military records. At the time my dream was to be able to be locked into the Archives and have all night to search through stuff.

My mother...God Bless her, enjoyed reading, and she read to me when I was little. I can still remember that. My favorite story was “Rapunzel.” I was the baby of the family, and so she had the time to spend with me. She’d take me to the local branch library so I could get books. It was one of the reasons I was able to read before I even went to Kindergarten.

I used to ask God to let me live long enough so that I could read all the books in my bookcases, but then I’d cheat and buy more books. I’m not asking for much in the afterlife, just some good books to read, and my flavored coffees. That’s it, and I’ll be content.

Hope you’re content too.


69 posted on 08/02/2018 11:52:34 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th
you sound like a very interesting person...but I have to say at age 70 you have a long life ahead of you still, baring no major health problems...70 is really relatively young nowadays...

so keep reading/writing/digging...we need your input...

71 posted on 08/03/2018 12:08:22 AM PDT by cherry (official troll)
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