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<DIV>Been a fan ever since!!<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Ryan Simmons <ryan.gsimmons@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> groop <Groop@groo.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Monday, July 6, 2009 4:21:59 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Groop] Where were you?<BR></FONT><BR>1985 in the small comic book rack of a tiny, tiny grocery store that didn't even have central AC.. Epic/Marvel 1. Unsurprisingly the store burned to the ground a few years later and nothing has yet to be rebuilt on that spot.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Shawn Moore <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:uslgrad@hotmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:uslgrad@hotmail.com">uslgrad@hotmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>It was in 1990 at the nearby news stand where I first gazed upon Groo. I had just started working at a baseball card shop and was going get refreshments at the local news stand when there it was, Groo the Wanderer. I've been cursed ever since with the drive to acquire Groo.<BR><BR>
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