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A sweet (and chewy) path: One man's life in gum, and the ripples his innovation caused

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Source: The Daily Sentinel

He was 87, living in a retirement village outside a mid-sized Pennsylvania city. Walter Diemer looked like the other residents there, really — except that this one had, long ago, done something momentous. Somewhat inadvertently, he invented the stretchy, usually…

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