I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to…

Bill Bryson
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I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity. ✨ Bill Bryson (2006). The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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