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[quote=Anonymous]I was born in 1959.  The charts say I am a boomer, so I guess I am a boomer.

I was 4 when Kennedy was shot.  I don't remember anything about it.  While Vietnam was intensely going on, I was learning to ride my bike without training wheels.  Of course I heard about Vietnam, but Gomer Pyle was on TV and he seemed pretty happy.  That Woodstock thing?  I first learned about it by listening to a Joni Mitchell song on the radio years afterward.  When the astronauts landed on the moon, my mom made me come in from playing outside to watch and I was pretty cranky with her about it because I had been having a good time playing.

I vaguely remember TV shows going from black and white to color.

I suppose I have boomer influences as well.  Growing up, girls were expected to learn to cook and raise children and clean house.  Going to college was a "waste of money to spend on a woman." A young woman could learn a trade such as secretarial or teaching or nursing, but she was expected to quit working once she got married and started putting that uterus to work.  As a teen and young adult, I assumed that there would always be factory jobs that would pay well.  Assembling tricycles, working at the Frito factory, working at the air conditioner factory, etc.

You were supposed to try to remain a virgin until marriage.  Living together before marriage was a sin.

I used to read the teen magazines back when I was, well, a teen.  The magazine articles said that teen boys have fragile egos and a teen girl should never win at tennis or chess with a teen boy.

Birth control pills came along when I was a teen  and that just absolutely revolutionized everything.  Now, it is accepted as a completely normal thing that two people  can have sex with each other without it resulting in a baby.  
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