Gummi Bear Day! The Haribo Company began making gummi bears on this date in 1922. My tie shows them in large scale, but my tie tack comes very close to their "actual size."
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- Gene Kleppinger
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The Eastern Progress featured my tie collection in September 2010.
In 2015 I began learning how to tie all sorts of knots.
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