Brilliant, just brilliant! If not for the fact that I'm a couple of years older than you (I was born at the *very* beginning of our defined generation), much of what you wrote was about my youth.
I am still proud and grateful that I was *finally* old enough to vote in 1984 -- and to have been able to cast that very first ballot for Reagan's re-election.
83 posted on 06/07/2004 4:51:46 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
(Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! -- RIP, President Reagan)