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In reply to the discussion: If you could relive any year of your life,....what would it be? [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I was an innocent little kid.
My wonderful grandparents were alive, and I spent many happy Sundays at their house.
I was popular in school.
The exciting Space Race culminated in the Moon Landing.
So many things seemed to be magical or mystical, particularly the municipal pool and its jukebox, my little transistor radio that could connect me to faraway places, the new history books that I got as a birthday present, the Golden Book encyclopedias that were so fascinating, the Scholastic books that I got at school (especially Runaway Slave: the Story of Harriet Tubman, and The Search for Planet X), the wonderful cartoons on Saturday mornings and the wonderful kid shows on at night, the annual summer visit by the neighbors' granddaughters, my nascent stamp collection...