Originally Posted By: bws48
Too true, but then I think that all of us, and especially those of us born before 1950, think exactly the same thing, and think that those of you born in the 1980s are still, well, a bit young, and really don't understand. . . grin laugh blush

What I loved most about being a child prodigy was astonishing your generation with what I knew. I studied cultural history. Therefore, I was able to hold my own in a conversation with my grandparents' generation. We would talk about Sky King, Tom Mix and the Straight Shooters or why the 1907 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost was cutting edge for its time. I even brought up The Cinnamon Bear in one conversation. And I was able to do all that without the help of any internet device.

To quote the TV series The Pretender: "The worst thing that could ever happen to a child prodigy is to grow up."

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday