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May, 1983: Where were you?

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Lumière:
I was 4 years old and in kindergarten!  The world was my oyster too!  ;D

Ellemeno:
It was one month before my 24th birthday.  I had just left the large East Coast egalitarian commune I'd lived in for three years, and had spent the winter and early spring visiting some of the communes of the Pacific Northwest, learning about ways of living together, and having a high ol' time.  Gorgeousness was mine - if only I had realized it at the time.

In May 1983, I had just settled down at a small farming commune in a very rural isolated part of the Midwest.  Having grown up in the heart of New York City, and having hardly even held a hammer, I was suddenly learning everything new - construction, blacksmithing, farming, gardening, being socially and culturally isolated, living in nature. 

In New York, talking about the weather was synonymous with having nothing to talk about.  On the farm, talking about the weather was talking about what really mattered - what would determine our day, week, season, year.

I learned invaluable amounts there.  Also met and left with the man who would become my first husband, but that didn't happen til 1987.

Jeff Wrangler:
May 1983?

Eeek. ...

Age 25, still living in my home town. Not "out" yet, to myself or anybody.  ::) That's about the time a friend and I decided to get an apartment together because we both wanted to get out from under our respective parental roofs.

Cameron:
I remember this month like it was yesterday.

I was 20 and I was finishing up college, and I didn't get into the graduate program I was made to think I wanted to go into. So it wasn't the best time.  I ended up going into another one instead that I much later realized wasn't really for me either.  But it was exactly this time that I first discovered and got into all the amazing music that was out then. That did lead to some good times and great friends.

fritzkep:

--- Quote from: injest on May 06, 2007, 06:05:48 am ---24 years? Way to go, Fritz!!! How long have you and Earl been together total?

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This coming November it will be 29 years. Monday after Thanksgiving, 1978, when we realized, after he went to visit his family in New Jersey, that we were crazy about each other. We still are.

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