Only this spring, once Bench had flip-flop samples in hand, did Harrington and his wife, Jean (Bench s godmother), make a low-six-figure investment.

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Later in the day, a Tumblr blog called mansplainingryan overlaid impact text on photos of Ryan holding his hand out from the weight bench.

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And certainly not my grandfather himself, the smiling watchman of my earliest memories, the quiet, black-eyed, slender man who held my hand as we crossed the avenues, who sat on a park bench reading his Russian newspaper while I chased pigeons and harassed sugar ants with broken twigs.

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