[nopardons]

They've never heard of the once very popular series of HORATIO ALGER stories. For most here, history or life only began in 1953, or thereabouts and 1953 as they imagine it was; not as it REALLY was.

[rintense]

Ha! My mom started smoking in 1953- at the ripe old age of 13! The drinking and the sex came a few years later.

And she was raised by *gasp* a father and a mother! Oh the humanity of it all!