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zackymilly

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13. We would cash them in for cigarettes when I was young.

Reply to MineralMan (Reply #7)

Wed May 29, 2019, 10:35 AM

May 2019

No age restriction on cigs back then.
So glad I never took up the habit when I got older.

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