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Cheeky Professor.
Because there are such things as stupid questions.

30-something | Midwesterner
married | recently transplanted
tenure track | Scorpio
dog mom | acclimating suburbanite
social scientist | pro-choice
ferret owner | proud liberal
Czech | slightly neurotic
child free | Michigan Native

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August 16, 2005
28 Years Ago Today
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I was 8 years old and we were camping for family vacation. Me, mom, and dad. Dad had gone to get firewood and a kid came through the campground selling newspapers. Mom paid for the paper, took one look at the front page, lay down and began to sob. Uncontrollable sobbing. I'd never seen her cry so hard and it scared me. When I asked her what was wrong she could barely get the words out. "Elvis died."

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CheekyProf • 06:11 PM
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I love this picture of El-vi. (You know that I'm partial to the young, sexy E rather than that fat drugged out E...).

This is a great story, Cheeky. I have a non-camping version of my Mom and the day Lennon was shot.

So, if Boy George OD'd, would you shed few tears in memory of the old days?


:P

comment by Advice At Your Own Risk at 11:15 PM on 08.16.05

Related post here (I couldn't get a trackback to register on your site).

comment by gzombie at 08:07 AM on 08.18.05

CHEEKY!

I was also 8 and we were ALSO camping on family vacation when we heard the news on the radio.

comment by amy at 05:36 PM on 08.18.05