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am a child of the eighties.
That is what I prefer to be called.
The nineties can do without me.
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Grunge
is here to stay, fashion is fickle and "Generation X" is a myth created
by some over-40 writertrying to figure out why people wear flannel in the summer.
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When
I got home from school, I played with my Atari
2600. I spent hours playing Pitfall or Combat or Breakout or
Dodge'em Cars or Frogger. I never did beat PacMan (Who didn't).
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Then I watched "Scooby
Doo." Daphne was a Goddess, and I thought Shaggy was
smoking
something synthetic in the back of their psychedelic
van. I hated Scrappy.
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