Do you remember when
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Loved it--I lived during those days=--tthanks for the memories
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Enjoyed the walk down memory lane with you. Always nice to have company on such a stroll. Simpler, happier times to be sure.
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thanks for the reminder of the good old days
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Felt the relaxing summer breeze!
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copied it so I could email it to my friends to share. Yup...remember those days alot!
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That was also a time when neighbors knew and looked out for and helped each other. Now if they aren't ignoring each other they are finding fault and calling the authorities! You also knew all of the neighbors in the town. Now you are lucky to know the ones living next door to you. Ah for those good ole days!
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This really is what it was like "way back in the 50's". And we children would be out all day, and our mothers knew we'd be home by a certain time, and taking a break from our games we'd pick tomatoes from someone's yard and wipe them on our clothes and eat them and nobody died. Thanks TanyaL for giving a lot of us smiling memories.
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Thanks for the trip down memory lane, those were the good old days. I am so glad I grew up in the 40's and 50's. We can never recapture those times, but we have the memories.
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I miss that way of life. Thanks for the break - todays world never stops and smells the Roses.
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