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Nostalgia, the Curse of Getting Older, and the Power of Now - Oxygen Buzz

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Who remembers the good ol’ days? You know way back when teenagers could ride in the back of a pickup truck on the freeway, or you could light up a cigarette on an airplane, or hold a baby on your lap without those confining car seats.

Who remembers the good ol’ days? You know way back when teenagers could ride in the back of a pickup truck on the freeway, or you could light up a cigarette on an airplane, or hold a baby on your lap without those confining car seats. And if you had a problem in your life, nobody asked you to share it. Nobody wanted to hear. And, by God, if the ice cream man wanted to give an eight-year-old a ride around the block in the back of his truck, he could do it. You could even ring the bell. Just don’t tell your mother. Like I said, the good ol’ days! And, sure, these might not be the golden days…

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