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Modelling tuxedos at the Oklahoma State Fair in 1971.
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That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
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A new administration here in the US.
The day our daughter was born, or maybe fishing on the Colorado river with my wife and brother and his buddy Earl.
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