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Buckeye_Democrat

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2. My parents drove me to a mall when I was a kid...

Reply to NoRethugFriends (Reply #1)

Sun May 2, 2021, 03:25 PM

May 2021

... because I wanted to meet George Foster. He was supposed to be there, but he couldn't make it for whatever reason.

So there was Pete Rose in his place, promoting a book about him. He was nice to the kids whose parents bought the hardcover book, but not to me and others who tried to express our appreciation of him after standing in line. He signed the piece of paper given to me by my parents before they did other things in the mall, at least, but the experience was so deflating to me (about 10 years old) that I tossed it in a trash can.

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