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Re: My first time
Sad to say, I bet I'm the oldest on the board. <img src=frown.gif ALT="

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I hold in my hand my first copy of LOTR, although I've acquired several others. It's the first printing of the Ballentine paperback in 1965. I'd like to say I was 5 at the time, but alas, I was 11 and in 7th grade.
Hmmm...I guess I was scrawling "Frodo Lives" on sidewalks before most of you were alive. (And, I bet many of you didn't even get the reference <img src=frown.gif ALT="

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Lucky for me that magic ring kept me from aging all those years. <img src=wink.gif ALT="

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