When I was about 7 or 8 years old I got strep throat. I remember this clearly because it resulted in my staying home from school for several days in a row while not feeling all that bad. I was contagious but high functioning. Mom took me to the doctor’s office in the small town where I went to elementary, secondary and finally high school, about 2 miles from our farm. Adjacent to the doctor’s office was the pharmacy and I couldn’t get enough of that joint when I was a kid. It was the only place within 20 miles where you could drop off film to be developed, buy a card and a box of Russell Stover candies for your grandma, pick up a vanilla scented candle, select from a rack of magazines, buy paper clips, Vitalis, note cards and hemorrhoid cream all while waiting for your prescription of penicillin to be filled.
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When I was about 7 or 8 years old I got strep throat. I remember this clearly because it resulted in my staying home from school for several days in a row while not feeling all that bad. I was contagious but high functioning. Mom took me to the doctor’s office in the small town where I went to elementary, secondary and finally high school, about 2 miles from our farm. Adjacent to the doctor’s office was the pharmacy and I couldn’t get enough of that joint when I was a kid. It was the only place within 20 miles where you could drop off film to be developed, buy a card and a box of Russell Stover candies for your grandma, pick up a vanilla scented candle, select from a rack of magazines, buy paper clips, Vitalis, note cards and hemorrhoid cream all while waiting for your prescription of penicillin to be filled.