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Just_Vote_Dem

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3. This brought back a memory from when I was about 7 years old

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2026, 06:44 PM

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My mom knew I loved to read, but we were poor and I could only afford the occasional comic book. At the beginning of that summer, a box was delivered to the apartment, and my mom encouraged me to open it up. Inside was a virtual ton of Peanuts paperback books, (ok, probably about 15 or so, heh.) She had saved up for quite a while so I could spend part of my summer enjoying one of my favorite pastimes.

A few years later, she saved up again and I got a set of encylopedias.

God bless you mama, I will never forget you, love always

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