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True Dough

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4. Can you tell us which presents you recall, Muriel?

Reply to murielm99 (Reply #3)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 12:15 PM

Dec 14

For me, it was always the video game systems. I didn't ever own Atari, like in the OP, but I got Colecovision one year with some games and several years later, it was Sega.

My folks couldn't really afford that sort of thing, but somehow they made it happen. The sacrifices! I could never appreciate them until adulthood.

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And they paid by check! True Dough Dec 14 #2

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Can you tell us which presents you recall, Muriel? True Dough Dec 14 #4

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What an advantage, Emile! True Dough Dec 15 #15