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So I was out near the West Coast, where my parents live recently, and my dad was telling me all these crazy stories about relatives that we have that lived in Arkansas.

He'd just gone out there. He showed me this old gun from the old West that they had.

It was just this whole thing that he's slowly sort of uncovered in research that I really

didn't know that much about. And that's kind of one of the things that happens.

Like I feel like every time I see my parents, I talk to my friends about this too, there's just always a drop in stuff on us. And you're like, how did that never come up? How did you not tell me that? Or you misremembered it or you didn't fully appreciate their perspective. Right. And that's where today's sponsor comes in, Storyworth Memoirs. Basically what Storyworth does is it emails a loved one,

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