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9. That is so cool!

Reply to scarletwoman (Reply #8)

Sun Mar 16, 2014, 05:25 PM

Mar 2014

I'm glad your dad loved it. My mother is gone now, but when we were young she used to tell us about the beauty of the Southwest. We had visited our aunt in Phoenix by car when we were just babies. That would have been in the early 1950s.

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