Reply #3: my parents were both born in 1938.

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my mother on st. patrick's day, my father 5 days later. it worked well for them- too young to be too affected by ww2, with plentiful jobs and opportunities. neither of them went to college- but my father went from construction laborer(shoveling concrete) to operating engineer(running cranes and heavy equipment)in a matter of a day- something that could NEVER happen theses days.

personally, i think that i would have preffered to have been born in the late 40's/early 50's rather than 1961- the early baby-boomers got the best jobs, and it would have been more fun to come of age in the free-love 60's than the polyester & disco days of the 70's.