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Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids

Dan Misener

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4.7 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2015

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Childhood pyrophobia, a sister pact, and a plan to rid the world of nuclear bombs. Recorded live at the Victoria Event Centre in Victoria, BC. ## Links ## Rate GRTTWaK in iTunes: http://goo.gl/xHLCxb Join the mailing list: http://goo.gl/xcgA6f Upcoming live events: http://goo.gl/XsQENQ Twitter: http://twitter.com/GRTTWaK Instagram: http://instagram.com/GRTTWaK Facebook: http://facebook.com/grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids

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0:00.0	When Amanda was 12, she went through her very first breakup, and she wrote about it in her diary.
0:09.0	Dear diary. Okay, Ben just broke up with me. He said it wasn't me, and he still thinks I'm hot and rates me a 9 out of 10.
0:17.0	But he said he wants to be single for like a month.
0:25.1	I wasn't mad at him, but just surprised.
0:28.2	He still said on the phone, I think you're hot, so everything's okay.
0:34.6	That's Amanda, reading from the diary she kept when she was 12.
0:38.5	And this, well, this is grown-ups read things they wrote as kids.
0:42.8	I'm Dan Meisner.
0:44.0	Grown-ups read Things They Wrote as Kids is a live open-mic event where brave adults get on stage to share their cute, weird little kid writing and their angsty, awkward teenage writing, and everything in between.
0:56.7	This time recorded live at the Victoria Event Center in Victoria, BC, we have childhood pyrophobia,
1:03.5	a sister pact, and a plan to rid the world of nuclear bombs.
1:09.2	There's a little bit of who we used to be inside each and every one of us.
1:13.7	So think about who you were when you were a kid. And stick around.
1:24.9	A minute ago, we heard from Amanda. Amanda felt okay when her first boyfriend Ben broke up with her
1:31.4	because he still thought she was hot. Well, that feeling did not last. Here's Amanda reading
1:38.4	the very next entry in her diary. Hi, it's me again. I'm not okay with us breaking up.
1:45.2	I mean, he was the first guy that ever really respected me.
1:50.5	He is totally hot, too, and has an awesome personality.
1:54.8	He told me I'm a nine out of ten, and I had a nice ass, and that I was hot.
1:59.9	GER! Why does he want to be single?
2:05.2	Hey, you know, I'm not really mad at him.
2:07.8	Today we had a great phone convo.
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