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My past is catching up ...

Okay. This is a test. I will be able to tell how old you are by the fact that you remember this entertainer ... David Daniel Kaminsky. (You knew him as Danny Kaye, beloved comedian, singer, dancer, musician, actor, etc.)

I used to love him (and still do) and was reminded about him, although he is deceased many years, by a television program about Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary, as he was part of the EPCOT celebration.

Danny was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., (like me) and was of Ukrainian Jewish decent (like me). He attended P.S. 149, my rival school. I attended P.S....