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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (894)12/7/1996 11:58:00 AM
From: Larry Williams   of 108807
 
Hi Christine-

Your response adds perspective to my ambivalent feelings about the 70's. I saw the 60's through the eyes of a child and really struggled with reconciling Vietnam, protests, hippies, and the counter culture with the conservative midwestern values of my family. I didn't know who to believe. Then my father died in 1976 when I was sixteen taking my belief in God with him (that belief has returned!). The hippies and their "insights" were gone too. Freedom was the only thing left that was REAL! The 80's became a time to reestablish things that mattered.

I grew up on an Indiana farm with a buddy, my age, next door. We had several hundred acres to roam. We were gone from morning till late at night many days, and merely regarded reporting in with parents occasionally as a temporary inconvenience. God they were worry warts! Seeing Vietnam and flower children on t.v. at night was a surreal curiosity after riding horses and shooting sparrows with BB guns all day. Contrary to what Penni says, I always wanted to come back home. Cities hold only temporary interest to me!

I was shocked as I grew older when I visited large cities. I had never been exposed to urban problems as a child. I came to believe that there was a fundamental feeling of powerlessness built into city life. Maybe that's what I'm hearing you say?

LLW
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