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'Before I was big enough to be a man': At 98, Jack Thompson recalls a gritty boyhood in Pineola

Jack Thompson, now 98, has recounted hardships from his childhood in Pineola, including a house fire that broke out shortly after his mother died from whooping cough and measles.

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