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Opie and the bully

December 29, 2023

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Last of the light at Kepple Lake, Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Big lies and a national character test

It’s a very simple story. October 1961, the first episode in the second season of The Andy Griffith Show. Opie gets a daily nickel for milk money at school. Andy, then Barney, notice that he’s asking for two nickels (discretely, from separate people)…

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