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When you look back on life you see how simple things were.
From 11 to 14 I lived in the community of Athens, MS and attended
school at Hatley.
Nothing special happened until July 12, 1987 when I made my
first attempt to get my Mississippi Drivers License. I failed
the first time because I did what we call a "country stop"
with the instructor in the car. A country stop is when you slow
down, look both ways and roll thru the stop sign. I failed again
a few days later when the car I was testing in had a bulb blown
in the parking lights. They say the third time is a charm and
its was, cause I finally got my license.
Having a license opens up new avenues, especially for a country
boy. I drove all over the place. I can even remember one day
in the summer that I got my license, taking my mom to work,
and driving all the way to Birmingham (115 miles from home.)
I almost didnt get back in time to get her from work.
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| In April 1988, on Railroad Festival weekend, I told
my mother I was staying with some friends after the festival.
We had planned to drink and party all night but I couldn't tell
her that. About 1am, a group of us were standing on a street near
downtown and one of the guys with us, unbeknowingst to the rest
of the group had gone into a nearby yard and was taking a part
of the person's car (He wanted to use it on a a car he was rebuilding.)
The person heard him in the yard and called the police. The guy
ran out of the yard screaming run, and of course we did. We ran
around the block and climbed into the back of a dump truck. For
about 45 min we watched blue lights going around the block, until
they say one on the guys in our group, too drunk to get into the
truck, he had hidden between the wheels. We were taken to the
station, and the officer on duty knew my stepfather, so instead
of putting me in a cell, he called him, and my parents came to
get me. No charges were filed agaisnt me, and there is no record,
but I learned a good lesson about being at the wrong place at
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| In early 1989, I attended my Junior
Prom with a girl named Vicki. We went as friends cause she wanted
to go and I didn't want to go without a date. We had a good time.
I wonder how Vicki is sometimes as I havent heard from her since
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OTHER IMPORTANT THINGS HAPPENING
On August 31, 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 wandered accidentally
into Soviet airspace and was shot down by a Russian air-to-air missle,
killing all 269 passengers aboard, including 61 americans and a U.S.
Congressman.
April 26, 1986, Chernobyl exploded, causing the worst civilian nuclear
disaster in history. Reactor 4 exploded sending a cloud of radiation
into the air that reached all over Eastern and Central Europe. The
death toll, total with instant and long term effects was estimated
at 6000.
On, July 22, 1989, a man by the name of John Dillinger was suspected
as a bank robber and shot in front of a bank in the Chicago area.
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