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Not old enough yet

From the reporter's notebook

At 94, I am still not old enough to answer what I think I owe my present age to.

I suppose I could say that I drank sparingly and quit smoking when I was 20 years old, or more accurately when I met my wife.

I was born on a farm and lived there until I was 6. My parents often told me that we moved to town so I could start school. That was in 1936, in Palouse. I never was comfortable on the farm. My...

 
 

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