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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:03 AM
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Its January 1978, do you remember where you were?
We were in the midst of one hell of a blizzard in Ohio (actually there were two) . I was out of school for 14 days during the month. Not much you can do when its 20 below outside. Freaken cold. 15 foot high snow drifts.
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:03 AM
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1. I was a kid, so I have no freaking idea.
I was going to school, hanging out, um, being a kid....
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:06 AM
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2. i was in school too, but working at the
grocery store. having to carry out groceries. it was freakin cold. didnt get any freakin tips
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:40 AM
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16. I was an adult, and I have no idea.
It couldn't have been anything important.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:07 AM
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3. I was teaching first grade in Sterling, Alaska. First year I taught.
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WannaJumpMyScooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:08 AM
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4. Cambodia. Walking through piles of dead bodies every day
at least as high as your snowdrifts, most of them manned with angry 14-16 year olds fucked up on beer and dope, but smart enough not to fuck with a platoon of US Marines.

They usually took off before we were even in visual with them, it was a game we played.
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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:12 AM
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5. Wasn't born till Sept. of 1978
:)
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Biased Liberal Media Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:53 AM
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22. LOL! I wasn't even born til October 1978
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:13 AM
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6. Was that the month of the Blizzard of '78?
Edited on Sun Jan-16-05 02:15 AM by NightTrain
I devoted a full chapter of my autobiographical novel, MEMOIRS OF A MALCONTENT, to that goddamned storm! :scared:
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:15 AM
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7. Yes.
Can i find that in my local library?
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:16 AM
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8. No, you won't find my novel in your local library. It's unpublished.
Sorry, should've mentioned that. :eyes:
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:18 AM
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9. can you let me know what it's about.
like to read off-market books. any info?
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:22 AM
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11. It's a slightly fictionalized account of my first 15 years on this planet.
I wrote MEMOIRS OF A MALCONTENT in 1992-93, not so much to get published but to work some angst out of my system. Over the next half-decade, I wrote three more aubiographical novels, carrying my "fictional" self through age 27. I've no plans to write any more disguised autiobgraphy.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:31 AM
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14. Would you be able to share any of your work with
us readers here?
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:50 AM
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21. Well, the problem is....
...those novels all predate my first computer. I wrote them on an electric typewriter. As such, the only way for me to share any of that material with y'all would be to retype it. Not only would that require a lot of work on my part, it also would require me to re-experience a plethora of horrible memories. I didn't have the happiest childhood, you see.

So, if I were you, I wouldn't count on seeing any of my autobiographical fiction posted here any time soon. Sorry.... :shrug:
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consciousobjector Donating Member (173 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:21 AM
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10. I'll never forget the blizzard of '78
I was living in a big green rented house with 3 other people and about 10 cats. There was a big window with cardboard in it because the landloard hadn't replaced the glass that had been broken several months before! Brrrr! But the worst part was that the 7/11 down the street (the only place we could get to by walking since all the cars were frozen half way up their tires with ice) ran out of kitty litter...ugh!
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:25 AM
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12. ooh, that's nasty.
sorry.
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T Town Jake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:29 AM
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13. Collecting KISS cards...
...and enduring the sounds of the Bee Gees echoing down the hall from my sister's bedroom for hours on end.

That was one long, cold winter, as I recall. The snow drifts where I was at the time seemed to literally bury houses, or come damn close. And all they seemed to play on the tube was endless re-runs of "The Bob Newhart Show".
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:40 AM
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17. Thiss?


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T Town Jake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:49 AM
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20. LOL...yep! Or something...
...damn close quite similar to it...
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:34 AM
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15. Working hotels in Miami
As a room service waiter at the then new, Omni International Hotel.
Best job a 22 yr old kid could ever have.
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:45 AM
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18. Stranded at home ....
blizzard in Ontario Canada. Had been married for a whole 3 months at that point.
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:47 AM
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19. I was getting out of the Army
Oddly enough, I was in Maryland.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 02:54 AM
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23. Yes. Disco Stu remembers.
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DivinBreuvage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 03:03 AM
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24. I remember that. I remember my little brother crying in the back yard
because his stunty little legs couldn't handle the snow.
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JohnnyRingo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 03:04 AM
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25. I was here in Ohio.....I remember
Thank goodness I was young and vital.
I don't think I can shovel snow like that anymore.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 03:18 AM
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26. Escanaba, Michigan.
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 03:53 AM
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Well at the end of the month, last day in fact...
I was BORN!!!!!
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WCGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 03:53 AM
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27. Oh yea, I remeber the Blizards....
Was my first winter at Ohio State.......
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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 04:34 AM
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28. my brother was born that month
so that made me 3, apparently I gave him a doll as a gift
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housewolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-16-05 04:46 AM
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29. Standing in line
during a winter rainstorm in LA (the kind that caused the mudslide this week)

waiting to buy tickets to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
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