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Matthew Schmidt
Nov 18, 2024
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baseball card collector

When I was a child my family would drive from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Springfield, Missouri, each summer. My aunt and uncle lived there and another set lived in Dallas, so this was the intermediate meeting place. There were three events that took place during the trip: a day at Silver Dollar City (an amusement park with a backwood…

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