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Oct 28 2012
10:04 am

A found photo of a soldier gripping a pair of hamsters. Undated but picked up at Swap-O-Rama in Chicago in the same box that yielded many other photos from the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Posted 6 months ago
#Found photos #hamsters #soldier #Swap-O-Rama #family photo

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