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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Heather gets a fart-related nickname, Andru takes a risky trip to second base, Brian writes a sharply worded letter to the editor, and much more. Recorded live at The Tranzac Club in Toronto, ON. ## Links ## Rate GRTTWaK in iTunes: https://goo.gl/ZwTjst Join the mailing list: http://goo.gl/nAdnEq Upcoming live events: http://goo.gl/eeQabt Photos from our Toronto event: https://goo.gl/pld52u Twitter: http://twitter.com/GRTTWaK Instagram: http://instagram.com/GRTTWaK Facebook: http://facebook.com/grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids

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0:00.0	When Andrew was 13, he liked a girl named Grace, so he wrote her a poem in his journal.
0:07.0	Because you're beautiful. Because you're kind.
0:11.0	Because you smile the way you do and look at me with your eyes too.
0:15.0	Because I'll always love you.
0:18.0	That was written for a girl named Grace, the next entry.
0:22.2	Well, so much for Grace.
0:27.2	That's Andrew, reading from the journal he kept when he was 13.
0:32.6	I'm Dan Meisner, and this?
0:34.6	This is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:36.6	Welcome. Nice to see you.
0:38.4	Holy smoke.
0:41.1	This is a show where we go back in time
0:43.3	to remember the good,
0:44.7	the bad, and the awkward parts of growing up.
0:47.5	This time recorded live at the Transact Club in Toronto.
0:51.0	We have unintended flatulence,
0:53.6	a risky trip to second base, and a sharply worded
0:58.0	letter to the editor.
1:00.0	This stuff is weird, it is wonderful, and it can show us not only how much we've changed,
1:05.2	but also how much we've stayed the same.
1:08.1	So think about who you were, when you were a kid. And stick around.
1:18.3	Families have all kinds of holiday traditions. And when our next reader, Aaron, was a kid,
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