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Millville man treasures a fragment he found 70 years ago while taking a walk

Jimmy "Skeeter" Littleton was 11 years old when he stumbled upon a piece of history.

"I was walking along, throwing stones at a fence (in Millville), when I picked this thing up," he said, referring to the palm-sized, silver rock fragment that he kept in his mother's jewel box for 35 years. "Nobody knew what it was."

But in 1974, while working for DuPont, a man offered to send the fragment away for testing.

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