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While Ella did laundry this morning, Tom went to Wal-Mart to retrieve her medications and fill the truck with gasoline. And them I sold the aluminum cans for $6.75. The Money goes into the Grandies account.




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Attached to Short’s was the Movie House. Yes, this tiny town was remarkable because every Saturday, during the summer, there were matinee movies. I sat through endless black and white serials such as Batman, Rocket Man, Captain Marvel (not the Marvel Comics version but the original that is now a DC Comics version known as Shazam), cowboys and Indians, jungle adventures, spies, and others. Each short episode ending with a cliffhanger. Heros were always heroes and bad guys always lost, but not until they had put the good guys in peril of their lives. There were evening movies also that parents could attend with their children.
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