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Edited on Sun Jan-18-04 12:57 PM by vi5
In 1977 I was just 7 years old and had only been reading and writing for about a year or two. For one of my first grade assignments which was to write a letter, I wrote a letter to Jimmy Carter telling him how great I thought he was and how proud I was to have him as a president because he was so nice to people. I think it may have even been in crayon. I got the usual form letter back saying "It's great to know that young people like yourself are concerned about the future of America". My mom framed it, and I kept it for the longest time and just now found it in a box of my childhood stuff.
It's really weird to think about this now. My parents were not political in the least bit back then. And even in the ways that they were political I think they were more conservative, especially at the time (My mom voted for Ford). So I don't think it was a liberal or conservative thing for me (obviously, being only 7). But it's funny how even though it's been shaped, sharpened, and hardened, that the same basic core sentiment that made me write what I wrote in that letter to Jimmy Carter, stayed the same some 27 years later.
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