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McKinstry: Hostess declares bankruptcy, but the Twinkie will live on
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When I was 10, I had no concept of saving any dough.
So the 25 bucks or so that I made every week tossing newspapers onto nearly every front lawn in the neighborhood went straight into the local economy: baseball cards, comic books and the Hostess cupcake.
Most days, it wasn’t soon after the 3 p.m. school bells rang that dozens, if not hundreds of kids, from St. Paul the Apostle School...
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