kalanamak wrote:

I remember - and maybe you didn't care but so do you

I was 9....I loved the Beatles, have for as long as I can remember. I
cried, hard... all night. I think I was too young to really know or
understand about who they really were and the break up - but I loved
them and losing him meant there was a real end to that. I had a very
close friend in high school that felt the same....she and I spent many
years wearing black on this date. I don't do that anymore - but I still
feel like there was a loss,

Roberta (in VA)

> I was cooking dinner at my BF's house when his roomate (we were all
> college students) came running in terrifically excited and shouted YOU
> WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE STANDING AT THIS MOMENT. I asked why
> and she shouted JOHN LENNON IS DEAD. My thoughts were "so what".
>
> So, I spent today asking people at work (there are 2000 of us) where
> they were when they heard the news and it fell into three catagories: in
> the country of their birth (Denmark, India, Korea, etc), in their
> parents living room because they were just 6, or "partying" in a
> trailer, an apartment or a run down place in the woods. The third
> catagory was the winner. So, this is who works for the State: young
> people, furriners, and the possibly now clean and sober.
>
> Obfood: at a potluck at lunch someone brought in "Robert Redford", a
> pudding in a pie crust, laced with walnuts, chocolate sauce and whipped
> cream. I told the man next to me "if this is Robert Redford, I prefer
> Paul Newman".
> blacksalt
> Imagine there's no Velveeta