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     Cyberpope wrote --   
      
   >>> Oh well, I don't have to play their games by their rules.   
   >    
   >>   And "the rules" seem to change daily in today's society.   
   >    
   > Mine don't, so there you have it.   
      
     Mine don't either.   
     Don't want to get into modern socio-politics and treading lightly: If you   
   were born a boy or girl you are always a boy or girl regardless what you   
   think (or feel like) today.    
     When your chromosomes change, come back and we'll talk about it.    
       
   > How many siblings did you have?   
      
     Altogether three.   
     I had a brother (b. 1922) and sister (b.1924) from my father's first   
   marriage.  "Big Joe" was killed in the Pacific in 1945.  I was born five  years   
   and three days after his death in my parents second marriage).   
     My mother had Charles in her first marriage in 1938.  He's the only one   
   still alive.     
     Being 12 years old than I we had little in common.  He married his high   
   school sweetheart in 1958 and I was an uncle at 10.  They are still married   
   to each other, have two kids (two years apart, a boy and a girl) and several   
   grand and great grand kids).   
     I came along in 1950 and was what I call an "oops" baby.  "Oops, honey,   
   remember that night we...."  :)     
      
   > trimminmg with the giant rusty manual clippers.   
      
     Oh, I hated those things.  Grass always clogging up the blades...   
       
   > Happy day for me when my dad got an electric mower & weed trimmer   
      
     In the late '90s I worked as as temp in maintenance at a local bank and   
   one of my jobs was mowing the grass, trimming the hedges, etc.   
     Now I was never that good a trimming and had a power trimmer.   
     I was cutting along, stepping back to check how I was doing, etc and when   
   finished I was pretty well pleased with myself.  Until I noticed there were   
   all waves on the sides and dips in the top of the hedge.   
     Like a bad haircut I thought, "well it'll grow back".  :)   
      
   > But apparently I'm an old fuddy-duddy who doesn't understabnd life as it is   
   now.   
      
     Join the club.  I'm a charter member.   
     Joe   
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