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Meanwhile, in a small town somewhere beyond the next stop …

“Guess how many pennies I have in my pocket.”

“Don’t care.”

“If you guess right, I’ll give them all to you.”

“Whoop tee do. Pennies.”

“When I was your age, one penny would get you a ball of bubble gum, five pennies would get you a candy bar, and 10 pennies a comic book.”

“That doesn’t do me any good — you were my age sometime in the last century.”

“What if I told you I have enough pennies in my pocket to buy you bubble gum, candy and a comic book at today’s prices?”

“What’s a comic book?”

Published by WarrenBluhm

Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.

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