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We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.

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Lawrence Welk
Age: 89 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 11
Died: 1992
Died: May 17
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