You all have my heart beating fast and I am grinning from ear to ear. But, does anyone remember the Sylvers: Hot Line, hot line, I'm calling on the hot line--clap!--clap! Foster Sylvers sure was cute. Remember those long belts we used to wrap around our waist and then loop around the leg, a mood ring, reading the back of a cereal box like it was "World News" as we ate, wearing a swim cap when you knew it wouldn't work, playing thump the knuckles to see who "gave up first", jumping over cracks so you didn't break your mama's back, the SOUL TRAIN line, sitting in church wondering what the words to the hymn the deacon was singing(some of us still do that), saying your EASTER SPEECH, saving soda bottles for the refund, wearing a Brownie uniform(I was kinda cute with those long brown socks on -hehe), the smell of a straighten comb on an open fire, the feel of the heat when mama got a little too close and holding that ear down for dear life. Remember this? "Go get me a switch and you better not come back with a little bitty one either." And remember while you were out there looking for one that you think wouldn't hurt so bad all your friends passed by and knew what you were doing? Life--you gots to love it. And can some of you remember life before cable? Sometimes, there was not much on t.v. then but I guess that hasn't changed much. MMMMMMMMMMM--those were some special days.
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