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The Blue Bicycle

On July 28, 2023July 29, 2023 By nanasworldwebIn family history13 Comments

The year was 1947 and my father, David, had turned 15 just two months before. It was time to start earning his own money, and what better way for a teenage boy to do that than to get a newspaper route? It appears that David and his dad, Emil, went down to the Valley News …

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