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Rich Marzullo
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Posted: 19 May 2025 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Interesting thought experiment, Craig.

1985 here. I was born with bladder exstrophy, a rare birth defect. My surgeon did a great job over the years and I have a great quality of life compared to others born with the same or similar condition. But being born even 5 years later may have really changed my childhood. 
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Eric Smearman
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Posted: 20 May 2025 at 1:14am | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Born in '66 and wouldn't change it.
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Brian Rhodes
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I've often considered that I was born 10 years too late, and if I could do it again - knowing what I know now - I would probaby choose 1959. 

That puts me at 5 years old when the Beatles hit America. 10 years-old at Woodstock (not that I would have encountered either in person). Old enough to watch the Moon Landing. But still too young to have been drafted into Vietnam. 

But being 15/16 in 1975? Old enough to see JAWS in the theater first run (which I supposed I could have at 5 or 6; it was PG-Rated after all (!), but the point is...I didn't. And wouldn't see it in the theater until many years later). To see KISS in their early tours - as a teenager? That'd been something. 

And I would have become a serious comic collector that much sooner, I think. 

But...hard to say. What other parameters change? My oldest brother was born in 1961. So then, all else remaining the same, I'm now the oldest. Or, after achieving this level of perfection on the first try, do my parents continue to have children? ;)

My parents divorced in 1975. So, I'd be in my mid-teens instead of 5/6 years old. Does that still happen, and if so, is it more devastating than it was? Or less so, if I know it's going to? And is it weird if it, for some reason, doesn't? And how does that change me? Do I still end up with the same interests?

And if you do it all without memory of prior existence, hey, maybe my choice was to go back (or forward) to be born in 1969, and this is where I really wanted to be. 



Edited by Brian Rhodes on 20 May 2025 at 1:02pm
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