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PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. I don't remember, either.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2018, 05:13 PM

Oct 2018

What did stand out to me was that the protagonist didn't seem to mind the ubiquitous smoking that was going on back in the past. I think anyone as young as he was (born sometime in the 1970s, I think) who had grown up in a largely non-smoking country, would have gone bat-shit crazy, especially in the teacher's lounge.

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Question about king's 11/22/63.** SPOILERS [View all] raccoon Oct 2018 OP

That makes two of us. n/t rzemanfl Oct 2018 #1

I don't remember, either. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2018 #2

It would drive me crazy now--and I used to smoke like a chimney. nt raccoon Oct 2018 #3

Heck, I'd even get it if a former smoker said, PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2018 #4