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  • this'll is only half the gift.

  • Yeah, it doesn't work without the story, I think.

  • Did.

  • This stuff was invented by this man in central Ohio as a white goo and used it to remove soot off of wallpaper from old fashioned heating.

  • So his gas and electric heating came in.

  • There was no longer a need for the for the cleaning goo.

  • Um, so, you know, the guy was going under, but his sister in law was a nursery school team.

  • Is this a true story?

  • The man's name was Joe McVicker.

  • His sister in law was ke zu fall.

  • Okay, I believe you.

  • So Ke zu fall discovered that her little kids liked squeezing the goo a lot more than hard modeling clay.

  • So she suggested to her brother in law Joe that they color the stuff and call it Plato.

  • Okay, nice.

  • So I have kept this for a long time as proof that we're all just one small adjustment away from making our lives work.

  • You can see why I thought of this for you.

  • Can you?

  • Thanks.

  • I'm gonna put it away because anybody asked me what it is.

this'll is only half the gift.

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