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Sep 30, 2019
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I used to watch westerns as a kid. My father liked them, I think. They'd appear on TV in the middle of the day, imports from America, full of American stars from a fading era. My mother, for her part, liked Elvis' films, and would watch those. Occasionally the two would overlap, but I don't think either liked it when they did.
 

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