It was a member of the press, the publisher of the Punxsutawney Spirit. He's one of the gentlemen who spun it into Phil predicting the length of winter.

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Punxsutawney started Groundhog Day, but we didn't make it what it's become. Everyone else has made it what it is now.

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That's the way people had to do it. They used what they could.

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