Blue Collar Babysitter > Comments > "Nice nostalgic piece"
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- Rob Shinnick
- Username: lordmarcovan
- Location: Brunswick, Georgia
- Joined PRX: Oct 24, 2009
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- "Blue Collar Babysitter"
- Summary: A portrait of Mike Butler: Irish-American tannery worker, avid gambler, and, in the eyes of three young boys growing up in suburban Massachusetts in the 1950s, the greatest babysitter ever.
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Nice nostalgic piece
Rob Shinnick
Posted on December 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Though my childhood was in the 1970s rather than the 1950s, I can recall friends of my parents who were sort of like Mike Butler: adults who were flawed but nonetheless beloved, and in their own way good role models of a sort.