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Turn back in time where you used to sit 4 hours watching
the Rugrats. Where you wouldn’t ever leave your house without your
nano baby, and when Blues Clues was actually challenging. Rewind
back to the times when your favorite shows were Doug, Ren& Stimpy,
Pinky and the Brain, AAAAAAAH Real Monsters!, and Rocko’s modern
Life. When youwatched re-runs of TGIF, Step by Step, Family Matters,
Dinosaurs,and Boy MeetsWorld. When you remember reading every
series ofGoosebumps, or in that case, remember listening to your mom
read them as she grew bored and bored and as you grew more excited
as to what would happen next. When bringing plastic cartoon lunch
boxes to school was pretty much cool, and saying “NOT,” after every
sentence was the way to talk. When every argument was settled by
rock paper scissors, bubble gum bubble gum in a dish, or daddy had a
donkey inky binky bonky. When cops and robbers was a daily activity, and
when hide and go seek was put to pause only when it was snack time. The
days when we used to actually obey our parents and when the radio was
all we depended on for music. When you knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger,
and Tommy, the green ranger, were meant to be together. When you
always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos . . .
but never taped anything funny…so you gave up. When the Magic
School Bus made you think that school buses could fly, and when yo-yos
made you popular. When getting married meant buying your crush
a Ring Pop, and blabbing some random words behind the dumpster.
When reading that little paper in the fortune cookie meant everything
to you because it predicted your life. The days when you could tell furbie
all your little secrets and expect him to talk back, and when Beanie
Babies were the talk of the class. When you got creeped out by "Are You
Afraid of the Dark?" And when you knew the Macarena by heart.
When you lied to your parents to bring you to McDonalds because you
were starving, when really, you wanted to play in the play place. When
gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing, and when checking
out drawing books and "Rainbow Fish" from the library was the cool thing to do.
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear we didn’t bother to think
of how good things were.
i just made it pretty.