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To: bert

My wife recently discovered some online pictures of me as a teenage sailor aboard the USS Saratoga, I could not believe how slender I looked. I was six four and about 190 and wearing jeans with a 33 waist size. I was born in 1944 and back then six four and 190 was big for a college football player, now someone that tall and thin looks like a skeleton. Two hundred was huge when I was young, now I weigh 238 without clothing and still only wear size 36 waist pants. The guys I knew as fatties in high school would be the little fellows now. The ones who were considered muscular then would look like runners now but most teenagers now are not half as strong as my high school classmates.


27 posted on 01/30/2020 8:25:02 AM PST by RipSawyer
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To: RipSawyer

When I was a teen, I had a friend named larry. Everybody called him fats and he was not insulted. Today, he would be pretty normal as a 13 year old


33 posted on 01/30/2020 9:47:35 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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