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Posted By: Julie

they were virtually parents to one of Joe's nephews, who lived with them from infanthood until the day he joined the navy.

"Bringing up his nephew was the closest Joe got to having a son, but his special relationship with all kids, begun when he was a very young man, never failed...Even after the Black Sox scandal kids from all over the country, and from Canada and Cuba too, wrote to him..."--"Say It Ain't So, Joe," Donald Gropman, p 221.