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As one boy said at the time, “None of us here can afford to go to college or get exempted. We’re just ripe for the picking.”

But as the two sides got to know one another, they realized the partnership was kismet—and a ripe opportunity to revitalize an iconic American brand.

The economy has shifted away from jobs requiring direct physical labor toward more sedentary jobs owing to computerization and mechanization, making age-based disability standards that assume jobs require physical exertion outdated and ripe for reform.

When you get a job or something, it can take you on a journey that you’re ripe to take.

“History is ripe for the retelling and the retaking,” Nawi said.