Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Everything was clear," he said. "You learned what you had to know and you forgot the rest. All this chicken shit...You didn't spend every living minute of the day thinking about your own sorry-ass little self. Am I getting laid enough. What's wrong with my kid. Should I insulate the fucking house. That's what does it to you, Porchoff. Thinking about yourself. That's what kills...
...Louisiana should be looked in on periodically, like the kid in the upstairs bedroom who's been known to tie the sheets together and split. Any piece of the personality is at any given time substance enough for enlightenment, to say nothing of entertainment...
...though, when she gets the dream of a chance? Crowned the reunion queen, she grows woozy and faints. When she awakes, she is lying on a cot in the same gym, and it is 1960. Her old friends are her young friends now; her husband is a nice, gawky kid. And she is a 42-year-old woman, with all her experiences and frustrations, trapped in the body of a 17-year-old girl. Peggy Sue got time- warped...
...once stuck in the '50s, she loves releasing the adolescent enthusiasm that has been stifled in her mid-life soul. Every mundane moment is suddenly precious: breakfast with her parents and kid sister, singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" in homeroom, catching Dick Clark on the old American Bandstand ("That man never ages!"). She dotes on her angora sweaters and her Iron- Maidenform bras, her mom's Rice Krispies cookies and tremulous advice ("Peggy, you know what a penis is -- stay away from it!"). She enjoys vamping Michael the beatnik, sharing a joint in a moonlit meadow as he howls...
...time, the truck driver whom I flagged was surprised by my request, since he saw a strapping young man near my car. When he was finished changing my tire and I offered him a three- ruble note, he said, "Don't bother, mother, but you should teach your kid a lesson. What's the matter with him, is he sick or something that he can't change a tire...