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In reply to the discussion: Who here watched LIVE for their birthday to be drawn for the Vietnam draft. [View all]BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)I love Birmingham, it's totally engraved in my heart. I was born in South Highlands Infirmary, maybe not far from where you live now.
I moved to Jacksonville Beach when I was I guess 4, then to Chicago (life changing experience) when I was 9, then a year later to Greenville, South Carolina, home of Strom Thurmond and Bob Jones University, and finally to Atalanta, where I graduated high school. I went to Birmingham Southern on a scholarship.
But almost from the day school let out, until the day before school opened in the fall, I lived at my grandparent's house in Homewood, so may great times there, and the fabled Camp Cosby.
Hopefully you got what I was talking about at the end of my story, how life is basically set up PERFECTLY there for certain people. Did it make sense? It's hard to describe it to my friends in NYC and Los Angeles. I tell them that in my time there, there were always wonderful, really cool, intellectual people, caring people, who you formed bonds with and everyone sort of watched out for each other, protectively. Because those traits made us suspicious.