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[Schoolcraft, Darrell] This is pretty cool. This is just how I remember it. Please show this to Kara. I bet Mom can remember back. ds Subject: Re: "Remember" < REMEMBER.... < < When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, < flunk a test or chew gum. And the banquets were in the cafeteria and we < danced to a juke box later, and all the girls wore fluffy pastel gowns and < the boys wore suits for the first time and we were allowed to stay out till < 12 p.m.... < < When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber < and watch drag races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring < with an inch of wrapped dental floss or yarn coated with pastel frost nail < polish so it would fit her finger. < < And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were always in the < car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big < trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had < a key. < < Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things < like "That cloud looks like a..." < < And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. < Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience-it was < a game. < < Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic < seals 'cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger. < < And...with all our progress...don't you just wish...just once...you could < slip back in time and savor the slower pace...and share it with the children < of the 80's and 90's ...... < < So send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, The Hardy < Boys, Laurel & Hardy, Howdy Doody and The Peanut Gallery, The Lone Ranger, < The Shadow Knows, Nellie Belle, Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk as well < as the sound of a real mower on Saturday morning, and summers filled with < bike rides, playing in cowboy land, baseball games, bowling and visits to < the pool...and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar. < < When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate < that awaited a misbehaving student at home. < < Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive by < shootings,drugs, gangs,etc. < < Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we all survived < because their love was greater than the threat. < < Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, Yeah, I remember that! < < And was it really that long ago? < <
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