Me and Mom
She wore Levi-Strauss jeans and a plain white T- shirt. It was the year 1978 when my mother was 18 years old, as I am now. She was a country girl, you might say and I am as prissy as one may get. She loved her horse named Pepsi like I love my car. She also loved the ranch like I love the mall. My mom and I grew up in different eras, and I really can’t believe how different we are. I had the chance to interview her and find out how different she really was and what it was like being eighteen in the seventies. It was the year after Star Wars, during the age of experimentation, when flashing light and throbbing sounds of disco took over. Saturday Night Fever was the hottest movie around, and everyone was introduced to Garfield. It was also the time when Richard Nixon conceded and space exploration was at an all time high. Music, fashions, and entertainment of the seventies were very different from my adolescent years. Music in the seventies was really much different. Sounds of Harry Chaplin, Pink Floyd, and The Who were heard throughout the house so loudly that the china in the china cabinet would shake. Posters of Roger Daltry were on every square inch of my mot
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Approximate Word count = 790
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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