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Gitane Tour de France bicycles, little ORBYs, high school yearbooks, silicone rubber juggling balls

little ORBY wall-climbers, silicone rubber juggling balls

Breaking Away (1979), Amelie, Deliverance (1973), American Grafitti (1973), Master Of The World (1961), King Kong vs Godzilla (1963) (at least it was when I was a boy!), Brief Encounter (1947)

songs that are warm and heartfelt and deeply romantic and tender and sweet and sad and beautiful--songs such as Again, It's Not For Me To Say (Johnny Mathis), Chances Are (Johnny Mathis), Night And Day, Where Or When, You Go To My Head, Once In A While, There Will Never Be Another You, I'll Never Smile Again, These Foolish Things (Billie Holiday), It Only Happens Once (Nat King Cole)...Where Or When and For All We Know (Billie Holiday) are my very favorite songs.

Survivor, The Amazing Race, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, 48 Hours Mystery

being very young; the late 1950s; the 1960s; the very early 1980s; pretty music; miniskirts; 1950s and early 1960s music; hot pants; short shorts; personally-signed letters; the smell of leaves burning in drums in the fall; golden summer afternoons and evenings playing badminton in the backyard; seeing the world with a child's wide eyes; my old friends; days of yore; the great cars of the 1960s (especially the '65s); lazy Sunday drives in the country; real New Jersey diners (with real banana cream pies); my Clarksville Middle School years; Scaggsville Elementary School; Noxzema Brushless Shave Cream; Old El Paso Spanish Rice (canned); Crosse & Blackwell Date Nut Bread; Duofold dual-layer knit boxer shorts underpants (the best); seeing Made in America; stationery stores; Rodney Dangerfield; the pretty gals in the 1960s and 1970s; Woodward & Lothrop; Ideal Toy; Remco; double features; frozen custard shops; big old movie theaters with balconies; real Parker pens (from Janesville, Wis.)...