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It was October 19, 1944, when the Bullard’s moved west on SHW-3 to Stonewall. My older brother famously said our move was sort of biblical. We, the Bullards, were like the Children of Israel in the Bible. Dad was our “Moses” and Centrahoma was similar to Egypt. Gerald always said that Dad (Moses) led us from Centrahoma (Egypt) to Stonewall (The Promised Land). I think Gerald liked the Movie Theatre (The Main) dad bought there in Stonewall. He really like our new house, and he loved the fact that Stonewall schools had a football program. Gerald loved movies and football.
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It wasn’t until the middle of 1942 that we Centrahoma folk realized we faced yet another wartime hardship. The great coffee shortage. Seemed like it affected our fellow Americans too. We were each buying and consuming 20 pounds of coffee per year in 1942. But no worry. Grocery stores in American were well stocked. Big warehouses had it stacked up and nobody, but President Roosevelt seemed worried about it.
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