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“Ready Camera One” by
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Prompted By How We Met

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“And so when WE get married, blah blah blah…"
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Blue Velvet by
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Prompted By My First Car

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As Best Man...I was an ideal chauffeur.
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Left Brain or Right Brain? by
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Prompted By The Road Not Taken

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Accounting was just add-subtract-multiply-divide, right? Apparently not.
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The Starlite Theatre Marquee by
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Prompted By Drive-Ins

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My job, among others, was changing the names of the movies.
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Still Funky after All These Years by
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Prompted By Concerts

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Most of that evening is forgotten except for the music.
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How My Dad and I Shared a City by
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Prompted By Father's Day

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...this day would prove full of little revelations about Dad. 
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Rock & Roll Never Forgets – Until Now by
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I couldn't answer the musical question, "What is hip?" In other words, I got old.
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We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars by
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Prompted By Science

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Whether Oscar Wilde or Chrissie Hind in “Message of Love,” said it, I have always found astronomy an escape into imagining the universe beyond our mortal realm.  I was able to get through physics and chemistry because of science teachers who truly loved their subject, but astronomy was the one that caught on for me.…
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Which Club Should I Join? by
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Prompted By Faith

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It felt like every one was recruiting me...
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This Means War! by
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Prompted By Toys & Games

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Perhaps a more accurate name for the game is “Revenge!”
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Rhonda and the Only Guy in Class by
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Prompted By Women's Lib

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I was at community college in 1972 and scrambling to fill my class roster for the semester. Womens’ Studies was one of the few classes still open so I signed up. The professor was brilliant, patient, respectful and clearly progressive in her views about “Women’s Lib.” The class consisted of a diverse set of young, old, curious, angry, smart…
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