Do You Remember Being Seventeen?

I remember 17 pretty well.. I was working in Sydney in the Taxation office and had joined a dancing group which was
very hectic..it was a folk dancing group. run by the Serbians as my stepfather was one.. so being the dutiful
stepdaughter I joined as knew he`d like me to .. well for a long time I had really sore legs and muscles ached because
I wasn`t used to such hectic dancing.. painwise I`ll never forget 17 lol after a while it got better and I loved it ..
this youtube is similar to what we did .. ours was based in Sydney and we used to dance all over the place and mainly
in Victoria ..lol was fun and I was the only Aussie in it ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja8sarGSbYM
 
Let's see. It would have been 1954 for me. Loved the 50's. Rock and Roll was new and the hormones were going crazy. Had my own car and was working almost full time in our local grocery store. Starting with the cigarettes and getting served in many bars. Still living at home but things were always fairly smooth there. My step-dad would put his foot down, about the late nights I was keeping, but in the end, i did pretty much what I wanted to do.

Seventeen was a fun time for me. A couple speeding tickets and loud muffler warnings was about the most trouble I got in.
 
Mrs. Robinson said:
It all sounded so romantic,didn`t it? In reality,the kids were hungry,sick,drugged out,sleeping on bare filthy mattresses on dirty floors. Girls were being raped and given diseases. There was an entire group of my friends at that time that all suffered from gonorrhea. Yuck,huh? They all spent the summer of `68,right after graduating,in the Haight trying to recapture what they had experienced in `67 but it was a whole different world by then. Then they all moved into a house on the coast together for about a year and it was not a good scene. Happily,today they are all happy,healthy,successful adults (old people now,LOL) and I am in touch with most of them. So don`t ever feel like you missed out on anything-it wasn`t all it was cracked up to be.
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Yes, it wasn't the lovely picture painted in the songs or on tv.
 
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