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By George Rowand
Time Newspapers Staff Writer
History has shown that most of the worst creations in the world - wars, committee meetings, the National Hockey League - were invented by men with too much time on their hands. And that’s where I found myself this summer.
Back from a wonderful vacation, and with our son in Richmond for the month of July, I had time on my hands, and when we Rowands have that, things happen ... bad things.
One year my mother came home on Christmas Eve and found the furnace ripped out of the floor and a hole big enough to fall through. You could see the dirt in the crawl space, and we had guests coming the next day. My dad had been meaning to fix it, and, well, that was when he had some time to do something. Mom freaked. The furnace got put
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