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Young people can't believe that anyone who was working in 1955 could still be alive.
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Young people can't believe that anyone who was working in 1955 could still be alive.
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Have you ever met an old neighbor in a store or on the street who extended a withered hand and said, “My word. I thought you were dead.” If it hasn’t happened to you yet someday it will so please listen closely. Every day I record a bit of innocuous social commentary and email it to Public Radio Exchange. PRX, as it is called, might be described as a huge warehouse filled with bits and pieces of radio programs. Young wanna-be producers as well as grizzled used to be producers write and record pieces we hope intelligent people will find interesting and deposit them electronically in this warehouse called PRX. We hope that an enlightened Public Radio program manager might someday actually listen to one of our pieces and deem it worthy of broadcast. Well, there is a new PRX and I was updating my profile on the appropriate PRX web page. While posting my work experience, which was with the...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Have you ever met an old neighbor in a store
OUTRO:I'm Robert Skoglund in Tenants Harbor,Maine
Jay Collier
Posted on December 03, 2008 at 10:14 AM | Permalink
Old and young
I, too, have started looking at the earliest year that shows up in the little date pop-ups in Web pages. I only sign up when my birth year is available. Otherwise, how will I participate if I don't exist?