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Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow by
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Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow was Bill Clinton's campaign song.
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What is there about big sisters? by
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Sometimes a guy just needs his big sister (although he doesn't always want her to know it!)
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A Piece of the Action by
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Prompted By Holidaze

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Then the paramedics began running up the hill with stretchers and backboards. Still, no Cindy.
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TV shows of my youth by
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The three TV shows that were an important part of my childhood, all of whose theme songs I can still easily sing from memory.
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Radio, Radio by
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Prompted By Remembering Radios

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I particularly liked the weekly feature from StoryCorps, personal stories narrated by one family member to another.  Probably no surprise to this crowd.
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Politics and Poker by
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Prompted By Politics

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Fiorello! is a wonderful musical about New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (yes, he’s the one for whom the airport is named). It ran on Broadway from November 1959 through October 1961. I went to see it with my mother on Election Day 1960. One of the songs in the musical, “Politics and Poker,” contains…
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The ’80s Called… by
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Prompted By My First Computer

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…and they want their stuff back! Oh, the clunkyness of it all. This photo is easily worth one thousand words, but instead: my favorite screen saver: On Mighty Toaster Wings!                
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Into – and out of – pantyhose by
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Prompted By What We Wore

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I was stopped dead in my tracks one day when a young coworker said she had never worn pantyhose.
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Grandma and the Mean Girl Dolls by
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Prompted By Bullying

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I hoped my granddaughter and her peers would embrace the importance of sisterhood before the Mean Girl games of middle school took over.
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Bike Stories by
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Prompted By Riding a Bicycle

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I have no memory of learning to ride an actual bike.
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