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The year is 1837, and the sun is setting on another day in Springfield, Illinois. And I don't know about you betwixters, but I quite fancy a drink.

While we sink a few jars in this tavern, down the street from us a young Abraham Lincoln is training to be a lawyer and to save a few Bob

but he's making a home for himself in a room above Joshua Speed's local store.

Speed and Lincoln will strike up a close friendship,

the closest in Lincoln's entire life, in fact,

and they will share a bed for the next three years.

Yeah. Now, men had very close friendships at this time, that was incredibly common,

and men certainly did share beds from time to time to save a few quid here and there.

But sharing a bed for three years.

That's a long, long time in anyone's book.

Mm.

The length of that and the intensity of their friendship will have people

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