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Those Were the Days

THOSE WERE THE DAYS I can remember when I could speak to strangers and they'd smile and speak back with minimal dangers. I can remember when married people wanted babies and most men were gentlemen and most women ladies. I can remember when we didn't lock the door and fatherhood was special and motherhood, not a bore. I can remember when we took pride in the kind of jobs we worked at to stay alive. I can remember when the aged were respected, and loved by their families and never neglected. I can remember when there were better times and people weren't on drugs scrounging for dimes. I can remember when God went to school and children weren't ashamed to obey the Golden Rule. I can remember when we felt love for each other and drove carefully on freeways with our sisters and brothers. I can remember when neighbors were our friends and we talked to them and told them about where we'd been. Janet Marie Bingham

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Date: 12/14/2018 6:27:00 AM
brings back a couple of folk tune lines ...'we thought they'd last forever and a day'...but...'the times they are a changin' (i love dylan : )
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