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If we were to attend a garage sale of your teenage years, what might we find there?
Both of my parents died recently, as in the last seven years; so I’ve had to deal with getting rid of a
lifetime’s accumulation of their stuff. And both were ‘collectors’, so there was A LOT of stuff. I still have
some I haven’t been able to sell, but will soon because I’m tired of dealing with it. So when Lexie asked
me to have a Teenaged Garage Sale, I thought “How fun to recall the things that were so important to
me at the time.” And so, here’s my list. Now remember, I grew up in the 1960’s, graduated from high
school in 1974. So some of this stuff will sound completely alien to you and some of it, I realized while
making the list, is popular again. How funny is that?

- Mounted 1000 piece puzzle of Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings

- 12-string acoustic guitar

- Several notebooks filled with poetry and short stories

- A few old 35mm cameras

- Several photo albums of black & white photos, artistically shot

- Brown leather wedge chunky high-heeled shoes, quite worn

- Dark purple hip-hugger double-flared bell bottom jeans with a wide brown leather belt

- Nylon multicolored halter top that ties behind the neck and at the waist, worn with white hotpants and
no bra

- Black fishnet stockings and shiny black knee-high boots

- Wild and colorfully flowered button-up tunic with a split from bottom to bellybutton and matching
hotpants (short shorts)

- Pucca shell necklace just like Drew’s (who sat in front of me in English Lit and I had a major crush on; he
was a surfer and wore sandals to school!)

- Flower-Power sheer bedroom curtains and matching bedspread; neon pink, lemon yellow, lime green
flowers the size of my hand

- Iggy Dolls (trolls) with neon hair and brush

- Clip-on roller skates and key (These clipped to the bottom of your shoes, then slid to fit and tightened with a key. But after going about three feet would have to be tightened again; over and over.)

- The Monkeys, The Beatles, vinyl albums and portable record player

- Homemade, quilted, full-length skirt with elastic waist. (Made by my mother for Christmas when I
was about 12, I lived in this skirt all winter—it was like a blanket. I think I still have it someplace in the
closet.)

- Buick Special painted turquoise blue with a black roof, no AC (rubber-bladed fan on dashboard), family
owned (bought from Grandpa for $800 earned on my first part-time job working Saturday mornings as
a claims taker for Allstate Insurance Co.), 3 foot-long ‘Go Turtle’ decals on both rear fenders (ordered
from Turtle Wax car wax company), Ooga horn installed by Daddy
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