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Old 10-13-2014, 10:18 PM
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Tucker 4-2202 ....on a farm in east central Illinois. It was a party line with five other families on our country road. I remember my mom & dad having to politely ask Mrs. Brooks to get off the line so we could make a call, otherwise she would stay on it all day talking to her sister, who only lived about another half-mile away.
What a great story about Americana in our lifetime. It is possible a billion and a half people in a few seconds could be reading this.

I don't know why, but I wish I knew Mrs. Brooks too.