I sat down with a group of friends last week and we started talking about firsts. The first car we drove, the first house we bought, our first big vacation. These are the things that loom large in our lives. The things we will never forget.
We traveled to Dresden with one guy in his first Studebaker, lived with a woman in the old town banker’s house, and went to Niagara Falls on a couple’s honeymoon. These are the stories that live for years in people’s memories.
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