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Lesa on Life: Autographs for fun, friendship

While digging out more never-ending memorabilia in random cupboards in my quest to downsize, I found my old autograph book.

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Remember those? They were little blank booklets that were presented to family and friends for the writing of thoughts and silly verses. I rescued one at a yard sale. I also found three that belonged to my mother in my stash. My book was sparsely written in compared to Mom’s that were chock full of messages.

Often gifted to a tweenager for a Christmas or birthday present, girls were not only the main owners of autograph books but the main writers of the verses as well. Actually, boys were allowed to write in them so long as they were somewhat respectable or at least not........

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