He would tell sad stories about his life and you'd start laughing.

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"If someone had told me in 1972 I would be campaigning for joining the military or for marriage, I'd be laughing, " he said.

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"One minute into using Airtime I was laughing with someone I'd never met, " writes Josh Constine.

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South Carolina, which you'd, you know, you were playing the sound from there and I was laughing because we were on the press risers, and our mouths just literally dropped open and someone said, whoa, when the crowd just screamed.

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