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This thread really touched me, I threw the NJ for 5 years, got married in the final year to my long time girlfriend, I grew up with, and she lived on the route, bought several motocrossers and 2 nice bicycles and left the route to join the Marines.

My father was helping me deliver what was the largest paper in the NJ history on an April Sunday when he said he felt sick, could I throw the route myself. Took him home, folding those monsters was the hard part, and threw the route. I was reading the paper when my mom screamed and I ran to their bedroom, I found my dad had had a simultaneous heart attack and stroke and died quietly while I was throwing the route. Many of my customers came to our home, the services or to my pick up station to speak with me.

Thanks for the thread, it was good memories and sad memories together. I actually enjoyed talking with everyone about the paper route.