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Tom Purcell: Survivor of a baby boomer childhood

Editor’s note: This column is an except from Tom Purcell’s book, “Misadventures of a 1970s Childhood.” The MSNBC.com article said that kids raised in the ‘50s, ’60s and ’70s are survivors. We survived chain-smoking adults, meat-and-potato diets and rough-and-tumble fearlessness of every kind — such as the bike jump that nearly killed me in 1972. It […]