Same same! I think I’m like 2-3 weeks older than you are and it’s a foundational memory.

April 10, 2026 - 00:53 UTC

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Oh my… “Gen X… middle child… Leo…”? Me, too. :). Hello!
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We were “downa shore”… Stone Harbor, I think… summer vacation. I remember picking up the next day’s Philadelphia Inquirer knowing— even at that young age— that “something big had happened."
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Ha! We were at our cottage on a lake in Michigan. My dad and I were exultant, my grandmother was sad (she disdained Nixon but felt that the country had failed somehow).
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