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SmileyBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:14 PM Original message |
What was your life like in April of 1985 (20 years ago)?? |
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notadmblnd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. I was 24 yrs old fully employeed as computer operator |
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
2. It was happy and productive. |
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Huckebein the Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. 5 years old |
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BigMcLargehuge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
4. I was 15 |
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mark414 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. i was a newborn |
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KitchenWitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
6. I was 21 years old |
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salib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
7. weird year to choose, then |
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Robeson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
8. I was finishing up college, spending time tripping on acid and doing... |
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MazeRat7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
9. 20 years ago ? |
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SmileyBoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. 20 years ago, dude!!! |
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MazeRat7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:28 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Yup.. |
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Fenris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. I was 1 year old, living in Oklahoma |
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graywarrior (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
12. Age 35, not sober yet |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:04 AM Response to Reply #12 |
56. 7 months sober then |
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GainesT1958 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
13. Starting a job as a techincal recruiter.. |
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solinvictus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
15. Let's see... |
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flamingyouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
16. I was a junior in high school |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:35 PM Response to Original message |
17. I was 31 |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
18. 20 years ago, I was 14 and packing for a trip to D.C. with our H.S. Choir |
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Tektonik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
19. Cold and damp |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 07:23 PM Response to Reply #19 |
96. Then |
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RetroLounge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
20. I was 24 years old and living in the Chicago Area. |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:56 PM Response to Original message |
21. April 1985--let me see if I remember. |
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texas1928 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 10:59 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. One of your Daughters is the same age as me. |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:28 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. I remember your saying that...I believe you are the same age as my |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
23. Late Twenties, single schoolteacher |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
24. I was 35 and teaching at a large state university |
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Dervill Crow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
25. Oooh, this is horrifying. |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:32 PM Response to Reply #25 |
35. You prayed for your husband, and God answered your prayer |
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Dervill Crow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 06:27 PM Response to Reply #35 |
86. Gosh, you're right. |
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Nicole (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
26. Those were the days |
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Goathead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
27. I was doing wake and bake sessions with me friends in High School |
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Mizmoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:10 PM Response to Original message |
28. 15 yrs old, starring in school plays, |
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Straight Shooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
29. I was starting a new career, which is now tanking (thanks, bush) |
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Technowitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
30. Just finishing college, looking for a job |
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xmas74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:26 PM Response to Original message |
31. 11 years old, |
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RevCheesehead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
33. I was in college and hopelessly in love |
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CO Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:32 PM Response to Original message |
34. I Was 32, And Married to My Second Wife |
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WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
36. I was in eighth grade |
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VelmaD (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:55 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. I'm in touch... |
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Red State Rebel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 05:29 PM Response to Reply #36 |
84. There is NOTHING worse than Jr. High School |
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RevolutionaryActs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
37. Nonexistent. |
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AntiCoup2K4 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
38. Van Halen broke up and they took real Coca-Cola off the market. |
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yvr girl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:51 PM Response to Original message |
39. I was in grade 12 |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 09:41 AM Response to Reply #39 |
68. I was in grade 12, too |
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carpetbagger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-15-05 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
41. Stoned. Very, very stoned. |
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Droopy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
42. Puberty |
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barackmyworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 12:01 AM Response to Original message |
43. I was JUST about to come out of the womb |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
44. I had my first corporate IT job for 3 years |
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freethought (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
45. Gettin' ready to graduate high school. |
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SarahB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 12:07 AM Response to Original message |
46. I just turned 13 and was in 7th grade. |
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cassandra uprising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 01:51 AM Response to Original message |
47. i was in the second grade |
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grace0418 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 02:16 AM Response to Original message |
48. Freshman in high school. Life sucked pretty hard. |
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Celeborn Skywalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 02:28 AM Response to Original message |
49. I was one and a half. (nt) |
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driver8 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 04:15 AM Response to Original message |
50. I was doing a college internship in Washington, DC... |
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Wapsie B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 04:42 AM Response to Original message |
51. 28 years old, |
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Mutley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 06:01 AM Response to Original message |
52. I was five.. |
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Anarcho-Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 06:54 AM Response to Original message |
53. In Thatcher's Britain as a three year old... |
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two gun sid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
54. I was 24, employed by Uncle Sugar,.... |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 07:28 AM Response to Original message |
55. IT SUCKED |
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GOPisEvil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
57. I was a junior in high school, and I had a job bagging groceries. |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
58. I was four... |
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all.of.me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:25 AM Response to Original message |
59. i was 31 years old |
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Bok_Tukalo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
60. I was a teenager in the US Army - 101st Airborne Div |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
61. I was 13... (fair warning about the revealing nature of my post.) |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:50 AM Response to Reply #61 |
62. You poor thing... |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:55 AM Response to Reply #62 |
63. Thanks, but (and this will sound weird) |
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Anarcho-Socialist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 09:12 AM Response to Reply #63 |
64. I always thought of you as "free thinker" rather than "strange loner" |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 11:01 PM Response to Reply #64 |
107. I'm honored, thank you! |
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YellowRubberDuckie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 07:53 PM Response to Reply #63 |
98. I know you weren't looking for pity. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 10:59 PM Response to Reply #98 |
106. Thanks! And, |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
65. I was in Austin Texas |
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ghostsofgiants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
66. I had just come out of the womb a few days prior to April's beginning |
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bikebloke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
67. About to leave a moshav in the Negev Desert |
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Bunny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
69. I was one month away from getting married. |
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LeftyDarthBrodie (941 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
70. Preparing for my second birthday party |
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tammywammy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
71. I was 4 years old |
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TyeDye75 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
72. I was 4 months away from being concieved |
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Wcross (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
73. I was a slut! |
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otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
74. I Was 30, Worked in Record Biz |
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loudestchick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
75. Finishing up my junior year in hs--found out I was a national merit |
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ContraBass Black (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
76. I was two months old, well loved, straight faced, and rather boring. |
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Blue Diadem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
77. I was 29 |
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gizmo1979 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
78. I was a wild 24 and in the Army |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
79. I was about to grajjyate from college... |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
80. 254, planning our October Wedding. Living in Lincoln Park on 19K/yr. |
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Maestro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
81. I was 16 I think. |
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WindRavenX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
82. I was less than a month old |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
83. I was on Team Spirit 85 |
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JimmyJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
85. Wow - let's see. 1985 - huh? |
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Deep N RedLand (184 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 06:36 PM Response to Reply #85 |
89. Still in high school. |
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JimmyJazz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 06:40 PM Response to Reply #89 |
91. I'm glad you have seen the light! |
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PopSixSquish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 06:31 PM Response to Original message |
87. I was Finishing My Freshman Year of College |
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Quetzal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
88. I was one year old |
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Catchawave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 06:39 PM Response to Original message |
90. That was during my stupid "Supermom of 3" years.... |
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gristy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 07:08 PM Response to Original message |
92. One year out of grad school and very single. |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
93. I was 7! |
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neebob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 07:11 PM Response to Original message |
94. I was 24 and trying to get my ex-husband to marry me |
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katinmn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:07 PM Response to Reply #94 |
101. Ditto! |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 07:20 PM Response to Original message |
95. Wow, that's a long time ago and just a short time ago |
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samplegirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
97. I was 27 |
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fudge stripe cookays (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
99. I was 18, and in Denton, Texas finishing my freshman year of college. |
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Not_Giving_Up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
100. I was twelve |
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Mugweed (939 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 08:46 PM Response to Original message |
102. I was 17 |
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Bouncy Ball (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
103. I was finishing up my first year of high school. |
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CRK7376 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
104. College Senior, |
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AzDar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
105. I was 19....Just moved to Arizona from Cincinnati to go to ASU.... |
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liberalhistorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
108. I was twenty years old and finishing up |
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HeeBGBz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-05 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
109. I had just joined the army at age 31 |
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110. I was 26 and single widowed 6 years almost to the day |
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111. I was in 8th grade. |
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