The great war was over. The man in the wheelchair had passed...the whitehouse was now occupied by a hatmaker, by trade. While a young couple in South Boston set about raising their two little girls.
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The 20th century passed it's midway mark. The haberdasher in the whitehouse gave the hero of the Philipines the axe. The Land of the Free and the Land of the Dragon tested each others wills with Korea at the ends of the strings. And the young couple added yet another little girl and moved from South Boston to the South Shore suburbs.
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And as the 1950's drew to a close, an island nation in the Gulf of Mexico turned red...the new baby boomer teens rocked and rolled while everybody tuned in to a new box called television, and now the young family added a son.