Generation X: what was your childhood like?

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I'm writing a book about us. I need Generation X'ers' accounts of their childhoods for chapter two, which is a description of us so the Baby Boomers will finally accurately know us - because in many ways, they don't. (However, they're curious about us and wonder if we will change America as their spiritual and political heirs. Yes. Shocker. Not their kids, Gen Y, but Boomers look to US. It's true.) If you do not mind being quoted in a nationally-published book, and give me permission to use your quote in the book (you can be anonymous), will you tell me briefly, in a paragraph or two, what you remember of your childhood?

I know what my childhood was like; what was yours like?

The rules:

1. Please be somewhat brief - not a multi-page essay (If you want to do one of those, you'll need to contact me and send it to my actual email address)

2. Please include any pop culture references: songs, TV shows, toys, you remember

3. Please be sure to mention whether it was a good childhood, or a less than good one. My opinion in the book is we generally enjoyed our childhoods. You may disagree. Feel free to. I'll include it.

That's it. Thanks for any and all postings. For info about me, and why I'm writing this, and more details on the book, what it's about etc., PLEASE PM me.

- Heather