And Jeff, I was going to ask you about this first because you're a former Boy Scout.

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It never occurred to me until later in life what an odd way it was for a boy to spend Saturday mornings, maybe because I enjoyed it so much.

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Now, this did little to console the boy who was crushed, because, after all, what was I going to do with a rubber ball?

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When I was a small boy, I used to take the picture to bed with me every night, because for more than three years my father was deployed, unable to live with us full-time, serving overseas or in bases where there was no family housing.

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