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I remember we moved to Pearl, we had a shower, like two showers, and I thought we had

become like rich because we had a shower.

This is Justin Sledge, a child of the 80s. He lived in Jackson, Mississippi, until the early 90s, when his family moved to a small town called Pearl.

Yeah, my parents would let us just roam around.

We would cut grass to make money, and we would have $20 in our pocket, which was an enormous

amount of money, I think.

And, you know, we'd walk down to the Taco Bell and buy her own food and then walk to

the video store and then rent, I don't know, Evil Dead and some Super Nintendo game.

And, yeah, we had an enormous amount of freedom and, I don't know, independence.

Every generation runs the risk of becoming really annoying by acting like they were better at being kids.

But it is striking how someone born in the 80s, the early 80s like Justin or the late 80s like me,

remembers the world being completely different than it is today.

We remember what it was like to not have a cell phone, to not

have a way to contact your parents as a child, to wonder about something and then just kind

of have no way of finding out. I feel nostalgia for a time I didn't even experience when I

listened to Justin, and this is a nostalgia so many people, especially millennials, feel

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