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Everybody Has a Story: Firemen’s generosity created ‘best’ Christmas

By Fay Shorten, Hough neighborhood
Published: December 27, 2017, 6:05am

It was 1963, the year President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. My mom, my little brother and I lived next to the fire station at 37th and Main, here in Vancouver. There was no Safeway at that time, just two houses, the fire station and an empty lot behind us.

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