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20. One thing that always struck me about 80's movies aimed at teens

Sun Nov 9, 2014, 07:12 PM

Nov 2014

The "cool" kids in high school had the appearance, means, maturity and most notably; autonomy, of a person in their mid-20's.

Never saw anything like that in my HS years ( late 70's ) and neither did anybody else I mentioned this to. As "cool" or popular as they were, and how much "stuff" they had; they were still kids living under some sort of authority.

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