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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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It has dawned on me, in the kind of way that a falling chimney stack would dawn on you, that in mid-1991 I left a reasonably well paid job to go to further and then higher education. I have learned that the lecturer who I had the most contact with during my time at University is taking early retirement having reached the ripe old age of 60 a apuple if weeks ago. Twenty years. 
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm
Posts: 6580
Location: Getting there
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I had a similar experience the other day. Although my 20 years ago was when I was 8.
I was reminiscing with a friend I lived down the road from when we were 8 years old and it suddenly dawned on me that that was 20 years ago.
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soddit112
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:12 pm
Posts: 2020
Location: Mute City
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20 years ago i was busy being conceived 
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| Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:56 pm |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm
Posts: 5664
Location: Scotland
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I was 5 years old  _________________
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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I had one these the other day. Was looking for my passport and came across some paper with my handwriting. It was dated just over 20 years ago! The same day, my sister met the mother of one of my primary school friends. Given that my secondary school was on the other side of Brum and nobody else went, I never really bothered to keep in touch. Quite a surprise to find he still lives locally.
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm
Posts: 5150
Location: /dev/tty0
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Twenty years ago yesterday I'd have been a week away from my third birthday...
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
Posts: 12700
Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Twenty year ago I was enjoying my last year of middle school (Year 7 in today's money).
I realy enjoyed first and middle school. The secondary school I went to was a [LIFTED] hole full of nobs.
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm
Posts: 8767
Location: behind the sofa
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Twenty years ago I was barely half my age.
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davrosG5
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:37 am
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Location: Peebo
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Twenty years ago I was just under half way through 1st year at secondary school.
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Spreadie
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:06 pm
Posts: 6355
Location: IoW
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Twenty years ago, I first met the woman who was to become my wife.
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onemac
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:14 pm
Posts: 1598
Location: Right here...... Right now.......
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Twenty years ago I was in a bad, bad place (but recovering slowly). Mr Mark knows what I mean  Bratty: I was 5 once myself you know  Al
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Eternally optimistic in a 'glass half empty' sort of way....
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okenobi
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:59 pm
Posts: 4932
Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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That's just unfair! Twenty years ago Tesco Value was new, I would meet John Major at my school the following year, and there was a sense of recovery and optimism, post-Thatcherism. (Yeah, I was a nerd. Go figure.) Most of the friends I had, I lost touch with forever ago, but I seem to remember having a lot more fun in my free time! I can remember it all like it was yesterday, and nostalgia and fondness clouds it like a cheap perfume.
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am
Posts: 7935
Location: Manchester.
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Twenty years ago I had just been made redundant, (for the first but certainly not the last time) and was living in telford, working for the countryside commision.
Twenty years ago Freddie Mercury died.
Twenty years ago my mum was diagnosed with the cancer which, a year later, took her life...
Twenty years ago my eldest step daughter was born.
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am
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Location: London
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Twenty years ago I was a croupier working in the West End and about to start work as a PA in the city
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jonlumb
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:44 pm
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Location: Exeter
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20 years ago I would have been in primary school. I can still remember 6 or 7 names of people I was there with, which considering I've only seen one of them since I think it quite impressive. Quite a happy time for me all told, the innocence of youth and all.
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