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That is the title of an article I wrote last September excerpted from my novel Donnie and Jean, an angel’s story about two children circa WWII Bakersfield, but it came to me the subject needed a broader emphasis in light of things like increasing gang violence in America. Considering all that has happened since I was a kid shooting marbles and the world children live in today, children have lost much more than the simple games using marbles I recall as a child. It isn’t that a marble used in a slingshot can’t do a lot of damage as some of you may be old enough to remember, but that was not their intended purpose to children of a bygone Norman Rockwell era. After all, you didn’t waste marbles in such a fashion back then when a penny was real money and your marble collection was real wealth. Adding to the real value of marbles during that era was the sheer beauty of some of these wonders of the glassmaker’s artistry, and any kid of stature among their...
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