I was way into this being a feel good story of a man, who in a stroke of unbelievable luck came across his stolen childhood snowboard at a resale shop after decades of separation but it quickly became a story of an uncle in Fresno painting a 69 on his snowboard then giving it to his nephew because thats the kind of thing a bitching uncle in Fresno does. *Note that he painted the 69 and that its not a sticker….rad.Â

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