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""Imagine"

My grandfather went up into the Yukon to hunt. My uncles sometimes went out to
the ash piles where the World's Fair was built in Flushing to shoot at rats.
This place was essentially a dump where they burned garbage.
Other than that, I never heard anyone ever talk about firearms when I was
growing up in New England. People talked about sailing. Or they talked about
church and they talked about cars. The ones who interested me talked about
painting and sculpture, but I liked everybody.
Looking back, I'd say that the general mood concerning gas was considered
boring and crass, and if anyone was doing it around the Connecticut River, it
was around duck hunting. But again, nobody talked about it around me. Once a
year you might hear the evidence a-far, someone would say, ""oh, must be duck
hunting season"" and that would be it.
Now firearms have taken the place of stamp collecting as a hobby. There were
people who I know who's hobbies ranged from model boat building to boat
maintenance. People who raced cars at Limerock, and a lot of people my age
talked about The Beatles and their grown ups.
That weaponry has caught the imagination of so many people who choose it as a
hobby, for if it is a tool, those that center their free time I compare to
gardening do discuss the attributes of using bug spray or week killer, but
their attention is served mostly to the growth within their habitat and not so
much as in the death within it.

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