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Links and Patterns

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I have to admit, I love joking to people that my parents were born during The Great Depression, I married a Baby Boomer, and I AM a Generation X. Now, talk about trying to fill-in the generational gaps! Although to put another spin on this claim, my parents were born at the tail end of The Depression and had us kids in their late 30’s. My husband was born near the cut-off “Boomer” line and is only thirteen years older than me. So really, in retrospect, the “shock” appeal looses its fun and stun. Yet, there is still something to be noted about this link, this connection, between three generations. I do think people take it for granted or just simply disregard history because all too often we are concerned with the now. And I’m not the one who wishes to lament over humanity’s past. That’s not my point. The questions I’m trying to evaluate are these: How closely are we linked to history, and thus, to each other? I remember when our boxy television set only had eleven channels and y