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• When I was a boy, my family was poor. We couldn't buy food to eat.
  On Halloween we had to go bobbing for gerbils....
• I woke up to discover it had all been a terrible film...
• When I was young, we had to carve our taglines from WOOD.
• An elderly man stands in line for hours at a Warsaw meat store (meat is severely rationed).
  When the butcher comes out at the end of the day and announces that there is no meat left, the man flies into a rage....
• The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys.
  But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it....
• We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength.
  But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant....
• My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
  -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)...