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746 Summer Flashback, the 76 Goldwater Dine, by John Midi. I'm Alistair, your host, and for the last three months we've been looking at how different authors

approached the massive ideas and concepts of science fiction in different ways.

This final month we've been looking at the concept of identity.

First, through the work of Octavia Butler, second through the work of Elliot de Baudar.

This, your last summer school episode for 2020, is from John Madei and narrated by Norm Sherman.

The original production was also hosted by Norm and audio produced originally by Mer Lafferty. The story was originally

broadcast in 2011 and originally published in resident aliens in July 2010.

So, without further ado, it's story time.

The 76 Goldwater Dime by John Madai.

I started in 1962.

That's when I became a numismatist.

You know what that is.

It's the study of...

Well, it's not the study of anything.

Its coin collecting is what it is.

I was 10 in 1962.

In Christmas, I got my first coin album.

I didn't actually get it.

My father gave it to my brother. It was, you know, you've seen them, a sturdy cardboard folder with slots punched out that you put the coins in. Behind the slots, the empties, it had a backing of blue felt. remember that my dad gave it to my brother I guess maybe thinking it would straighten him out but coins you know they don't really have that power he wasn't interested. He gave it to me. Me, I was interested. The album was for Lincoln

Penny's, 1909 to 1959. I had five cents in the world then, and each of the five fit in the slot. It only took me five more days to get the other 45.

I would do anything for those pennies and slot them in their slots. Anything. When I got my last penny, wow, it was a

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