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Bob was a weird old guy that everyone knew. Even the children knew of him ever since they remembered. He wasn’t mean or overly happy. Was just a regular person who loved candies. Bob was born, injured and lived in town. He certainly wasn’t the oldest man around. He wasn’t even the most popular person in town. Usually people wouldn’t even think of him. But ever so often his name would come up and memories would appear in peoples head about him like he was their new lost friend. They remembered the stories they read in the local newspaper. He was not born in a hospital. The nearest hospital is a couple of miles away. His parents tried desperately to get to the hosiptal but everything happened so fast. The local newspapers always loved to write big headlines to entice the readers. This time they had a big story.
The headline the next day was: “Local Sliding Baby Born”