Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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I want to kick off this December/advent series with the oldest t-shirt I own. I started with PenSpinning as a teenager in ~2007 and eventually we ordered t-shirts. It taught me a lot of lessons when it comes to learning and practicing, and it was the first real online-community I found.

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01:21 - The old German Pen Spinning Community shirt
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05:15 - Finding the early GPC community
06:32 - Online friends becoming real-life friends
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