Birthday Answers
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miss_ljv asks:
1. Three childhood memories (any kind)
My earliest memory is from when I was 4 and they brought my baby brother home from the hospital. I already had a baby sister of whom I was not fond and now I had even more competition that everyone was ooing and ahhing over. :(
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When I was 7 and 8, we lived next door to an airline pilot and his family. His son, Steven was my age. Steven and his sister got new bicycles that came in a huge, long, wooden box. That box ended up in their backyard and Steven took a crayon inside and turned it into his own airplane. He took us around the world and back. I loved riding in that airplane.*
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On the other side of Steven and his family was Ted and his family. Ted had a teenage sister who I idolized. Every once in a while, she would invite me up into her room. It was like getting to go to Paradise. She, one time, got a new wallet and gave me her old one. I treasured that sucker for years.
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*Steven and all my neighbors were born Southerners and, in those days, American accents were way stronger. Steven called his airplane a Paper Cup. I was in a college physics class, obviously years later, and the professor was talking about aerodynamics of various airplanes when he referred to one of them as a Piper Cub. I’m pretty sure I LOL’d when it hit me that that was what Steven had been saying all those years!
miss_ljv asks:1. Three childhood memories (any kind)
My earliest memory is from when I was 4 and they brought my baby brother home from the hospital. I already had a baby sister of whom I was not fond and now I had even more competition that everyone was ooing and ahhing over. :(
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When I was 7 and 8, we lived next door to an airline pilot and his family. His son, Steven was my age. Steven and his sister got new bicycles that came in a huge, long, wooden box. That box ended up in their backyard and Steven took a crayon inside and turned it into his own airplane. He took us around the world and back. I loved riding in that airplane.*
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On the other side of Steven and his family was Ted and his family. Ted had a teenage sister who I idolized. Every once in a while, she would invite me up into her room. It was like getting to go to Paradise. She, one time, got a new wallet and gave me her old one. I treasured that sucker for years.
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*Steven and all my neighbors were born Southerners and, in those days, American accents were way stronger. Steven called his airplane a Paper Cup. I was in a college physics class, obviously years later, and the professor was talking about aerodynamics of various airplanes when he referred to one of them as a Piper Cub. I’m pretty sure I LOL’d when it hit me that that was what Steven had been saying all those years!
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Date: 2021-03-31 11:32 pm (UTC)BOXES! They were some of the best stories of my childhood. Along with dirt.
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Date: 2021-04-01 07:24 am (UTC)With all this movement over the years what would a stranger class your accent as ?
Oh and for us Brits...who on tv do you sound like. 😁
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