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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 06:25 PM Original message |
Ya know, as I limp toward my doddering 60s, I am amazed at the changes |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm sneaking up on 64. Our family doctor made housecalls in a Bentley, |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. I have also had these same thoughts. I am also 57, and dad was |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. I'm crashing towards 70 and I echo your observations. |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 04:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. My dad was born in 1917.His first flight was in a jet airliner in the 1980's...nt |
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lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 07:28 PM Response to Original message |
4. I'm 63. I was living in Mexico thinking the US had gold paved streets |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
5. I remember those party lines! |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 09:05 PM Response to Original message |
6. I don't remember the polio scare and I am the same age. |
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Archae (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
7. What am I nostalgic for? |
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dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 10:50 AM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Have you watched the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica? |
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murielm99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 12:15 AM Response to Original message |
8. I remember all the braces from polio. |
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grilled onions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
9. At 60 Here |
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ellenrr (619 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 06:26 AM Response to Original message |
11. 63 here. I remember polio. I also remember trick-or-treating |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 08:28 AM Response to Original message |
12. I really did walk a few miles across town to school for most of my grade school... |
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Submariner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 09:13 AM Response to Original message |
13. I remember in '54 shuffling my feet making baby steps because my |
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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. I'm so sorry to hear of your experience. Mine with nuns was pretty |
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Old Troop (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
16. By the way, I wasn't being nostalgic (well maybe a little); I was trying |
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JitterbugPerfume (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
17. I remember the first time I watched TV! |
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