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Life lessons not learned

When I was young I had an aunt who lived in a small town in Kentucky. I would visit her every summer. Her husband would travel through the week selling shoes wholesale, and she was left home to run the business and take care of the family. They owned the shoe store in town with her other brother, my Uncle Norman.

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