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Hi mom: When you're only 3 1/2 years old and life tends to make you feel even smaller, you have to improvise
Hi mom: When you're only 3 1/2 years old and life tends to make you feel even smaller, you have to improvise

Hi mom: When you're only 3 1/2 years old and life tends to make you feel even smaller, you have to improvise

Date7/29/1982
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Original Toronto Star caption: Hi mom: When you're only 3 1/2 years old and life tends to make you feel even smaller; you have to improvise.
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Uncle Frank Dawson tends to one of his injured wildfowl at his 3 3/4-acre conservation area on Elmcrest Rd. The 83-year-old bachelor has been patching up injured birds for as long as anyone can remember. With a small creek running through the back, his property has become a haven for hundreds of waterfowl. He has lived in the same house for over 50 years and has raised a varietyof birds. But Dawson can't recall when people started to bring birds to him, he said.
Uncle Frank Dawson tends to one of his injured wildfowl at his 3 3/4-acre conservation area on Elmcrest Rd. The 83-year-old bachelor has been patching up injured birds for as long as anyone can remember. With a small creek running through the back, his property has become a haven for hundreds of waterfowl. He has lived in the same house for over 50 years and has raised a varietyof birds. But Dawson can't recall when people started to bring birds to him, he said.
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Startled motorists think be's outs when they bear security man Mark Carter sitting at a stoplight, singing and clicking his fingers, but most drive off with a smile. Mark, a 26-year-old native of Barbados, feels Metro people are much too glum and take life too seriously. You start singing, you feel better, he says.
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