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We moved around so much that I never really had a bedroom for more than maybe a year and a half, two years at a time. (To new and newish readers, I moved 23 times during the first 25 years of my life; I don’t really love the house I live in now but I’m too tired to move any more!)

My first room in Bayport I shared with Toni, who moved soon after down to Key West. It was a large room, but mostly her stuff; I was in a small bed in the corner under one window, behind some bookshelves. The decor, I guess you could say, was “early hippie.” Later I shared that room with my stepsister, and it was decorated in “books and Weeble Wobbles.” Thus began a decorating theme that would last for the next four or five years, my room being decorated with books and toys. That ended until Dad and I moved to Ormond Beach, where my bedroom was also the living room (so was then decorated… like a living room). It was a studio apartment and my dad slept on the bed in one corner, and I slept on a fold-out couch in the other corner. After we moved back to Gainesville and I had my own room again. PARADISE. And again, decorated in books.

So the Question of the Week is… What is one modern-day convenience you did not have as a child that was easy to live without?

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My answer is after the cut…

Hmm… I was born in October of 1969… so I think that Lyndon B. Johnson was still president then? Or was it Nixon had just come to office that year? Yeah, I think it was Nixon, if 1968 was an election year (cut me some slack, I was busy boobranching and pooping). And a lot of things happened in 1969 – among them: the Stonewall riots, walking on the moon, and Woodstock, to name a few.