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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:58:00 EST
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- From: Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Now for something completely anal-retentiv
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- >No more of the X tag now that _The Atlantic_ has labelled y'all Generation 13.
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- And equates you Thirteeners with the WWI 'Lost Generation.' The
- article also equates us Boomers with the 'Missionary Generation' that
- preceded the Losts.
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- -rashmi, chronologically, but not culturally, a member of said generation
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- By openly consorting with Boomers, you and Rita (and LH, and //anne//,
- and Lisa, and Jenna, and Aaron, and ...) have shown your true colors.
- As for the VMI boys, let's just say they <exemplify> Thirteeners.
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