I used to knock on the doors of old ladies

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No, it wasn't a prank. Lonely women were the only people home in our apartment complex during the days when I was homeschooled. Most of the time the ladies would invite me in. They would offer me dry cookies or hard candy and tell me stories about their grandkids. Sometimes I would leave with treasure - foreign coins, stamps, rocks, or a book of matches for my various collections.

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