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Tom Yaegel was born on Valentine's Day, 1947. Parents Joe and Anne, members of the Greatest Generation, navigate postwar life in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania.
1950s life in East Lansdowne: coal heating, milkmen, and shared party-line phones. A vivid portrait of simple, community-focused postwar American suburbia.
Attends St. Cyril's Catholic School, taught by strict but caring nuns. Becomes an altar boy and develops early entrepreneurial ventures while forming lifelong friendships.