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ScreamingMeemie

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33. I think it depends upon one's parents, and how much importance

Sun Mar 9, 2014, 01:03 PM

Mar 2014

they placed upon events maybe.

I was 3 when Nixon's "I am not a crook" Q&A with the press happened. I remember sitting on the (ugly) brown patterned linoleum floor of our living room when my father (a Nixon supporter) said,"You are seeing history happen."

I was 4 when Hank Aaron trotted into the outfield for the Brewers at County Stadium, and my father said,"Someday you'll be able to tell your kids and grandkids that you saw one of the greatest ballplayers ever to play the game play the game..."

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I think it depends upon one's parents, and how much importance ScreamingMeemie Mar 2014 #33

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