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Rock artists who died too young...what would the look like today
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that's just sad.
In other news someone posted a picture on facebook yesterday from a camp that I went to as a child and worked at later - I was in the pic at 18 years of age. That was sad too.
I am regularly struck by how people who were young and beautiful end up looking like me.
Seriously for a sec. I do wonder how it would be to have to live your whole life looking at a younger hipper and more beautiful version of yourself. It strikes me as a certain kind of heck.
Not sure if you have seen the movie Quartet (Maggie Smith) about a retirement home for opera singers. The movie is good but it is worth waiting for the credits which come up over scenes of the actors in the movie when they were young (and beautiful and hip) It is lovely and funny but at some level immensely sad.
In other news someone posted a picture on facebook yesterday from a camp that I went to as a child and worked at later - I was in the pic at 18 years of age. That was sad too.
I am regularly struck by how people who were young and beautiful end up looking like me.
Seriously for a sec. I do wonder how it would be to have to live your whole life looking at a younger hipper and more beautiful version of yourself. It strikes me as a certain kind of heck.
Not sure if you have seen the movie Quartet (Maggie Smith) about a retirement home for opera singers. The movie is good but it is worth waiting for the credits which come up over scenes of the actors in the movie when they were young (and beautiful and hip) It is lovely and funny but at some level immensely sad.
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Consider yourself lucky - could have ended up looking like me. Speaking of our younger selves, a couple years ago, I was searching for people from my past, just out of curiosity, and came across an obit for a kid, Jimmy, who was my best friend growing up in West Virginia. I left a note in the guest book mentioning Jimmy had been my best friend growing up and a few days later I received an email from his older sister. After a bit of back and forth emails, she sent me a picture of Jimmy and myself (on the right) holding a kitten in our laps on Jimmy's front porch. I scanned the picture and sent the original back to her. I have no recollection of this picture, but I do remember my friend Jimmy. His sister confided in me that, unbeknownst to the 5 year old me at the time, apparently Jimmy had severe autism.
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I remember seeing Diana Rigg in Game of Thrones and kinda recognizing her though I couldn't place her, then catching her name in the credits and being shocked that she'd gotten so old.
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Exactly!
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Seriously though - I remember a number of years ago at a church dinner watching a group of three couples who had known each other all their lives (they were in their early 80s) - as they were talking and laughing I realized that not one of them thought of themselves as 80+ years old. They looked at each other and especially at their spouses and saw, not an old person but the same 20 something year old they had met and fallen in love with. They are almost certainly all gone now but I never think of that moment without a lump in my throat - and with the realization that the same is true not just of my perception of how old I am but of who I see when I look at my bride.great pic.
Especially when we haven't
Oh and, one of the couples met in Scotland in 1944 (she was Scottish) and he was stationed there. Family duties kept them in their respective countries - so they courted until they finally got married - in 1976! (they would sit and hold hands in church - another fond memory)
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Same thing as I go through all the old photos from the family sorting them out. Couple of my great grandmothers were quite good looking young women back around 1900 when they were just starting their 20s. And a couple college age photos of me from the mid 70s looking like I should have been working the commune gardens with my then heavy long hair. These days it's a race to see if I'll go gray or have none left first...
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Well, this is the weird thing, she was 42 years older than me. I discovered the Avengers as reruns when I was a teen and I guess I never really associated her with her actual age. In my mind she was just this beautiful actress on TV.great pic.
Especially when we haven't
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As Walter (Jeff Dunham) once said, “Some women age like fine wine, others age like milk.”
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When I went to my 10 year high school reunion I told my Wife -
"I didn't realize I went to school with so many old people". The ones I
thought would be dead by then had straightened out their lives.
At the last one I went to,everyone was looking at name tags,to
see who they were.Of course the printing was larger on the tags!
"I didn't realize I went to school with so many old people". The ones I
thought would be dead by then had straightened out their lives.
At the last one I went to,everyone was looking at name tags,to
see who they were.Of course the printing was larger on the tags!
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Having met both of you in person I concur.
I went to a reunion a few minutes - I was ready to leave 3 minutes after it began.As for attending reunions, I didn't get along with those people when we were classmates. No reason to go looking for them afterward.
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There are a handful of people I grew up with I like seeing at reunions. The rest I can live with. In fact I find that some of them I didn't really pal around with have become different people and are alright to spend an evening with. Might not want to live next door to them, but a couple beers, talking about family and time passing isn't so bad. Sorry in fact that last year with the pandemic we didn't hold a 45th.
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I've claimed for years; since Mitsy looks so much younger than her age, I'm her painting in the attic.
As for attending reunions, I didn't get along with those people when we were classmates. No reason to go looking for them afterward.
My twentieth reunion was a couple of years ago and at the time I was teaching at the high school I graduated from. I had one of the class officers call up to the school and ask me if I was going and if so if I'd lead the school walk through because she thought that'd be cool. I told her that anyone I liked from high school I was still in contact with and that I had no desire to see any of the others, so I would not be going to the reunion or leading thre building walk through.
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And that was pretty much my experience - If I wanted to stay in touch I would have (and I do with a few friends)
I must confess that I was also a little surprised by the 'high school was the best time of my life' - shouldn't have been. There is an entire industry - movies/ alcohol/ clothes even cars built around that sentiment. I enjoyed high school a lot but you couldn't pay me to go back to those days. And the group who had literally not changed since then - yikes!
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Can't say that I actually enjoyed high school. Well parts of the times I did at the time but for the wrong reasons that I have regretted since. Most of the friends I had are all dead now. There was one girlfriend, off-and-on from 3rd grade on, who I still communicate with (wife approves?) but she is several hundred miles from here and also doesn't go to any reunions. One of my classmates still maintains a mailing list and I get her emails with class news every month or so just to "keep up a little" but I rarely answer.
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Ran into the "star" football jock about ten years after graduation, at the area's BMC/Leyland dealership. He was having his Marina serviced. I'd taken photos of he and the team during games back then, they were regularly published in the local rag. He remembered me from the time, said he regretted being such a s**t-head back then. He'd learned he was to become a father before graduation (his girlfriend had "disappeared" just before that). They married and he grew up fast after that, apparently adult responsibility took hold. I had to stifle reaction.
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I was in 9th Grade at Aurora East Junior High School. One day, while standing in line for lunch, this kid comes up and, because he knows the kid in front of me, decided to cut in line. I protested and told him to get to the back of the line. He got cocky and grabbed me by the shirt and said something along the lines of "what ya gonna do about it?." At this point, I hauled off and clocked him in the mouth and the fight was on...until one of the assistant principals split us up. Not long after that we ended up becoming best friends and we are still in regular communication to this day.