![]() Gael Fashingbauer Cooper is a journalist who writes the pop-culture blog Pop Culture Junk Mail. We want to remember the sounds we heard, the foods we ate, the toys that passed into our hands for a day or for a decade. "If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." That’s what we’re trying to do - stop and look around, close our eyes, and redecorate the rooms of our childhood. "Life moves pretty fast," said our fellow 1980s child Ferris Bueller. Malibu Barbie isn’t necessarily the world's best doll, but if when you think of her you picture your cousin and remember how hard you laughed when her baby brother bit Barbie in the boob, then to you she is the best doll, now and for eternity. ![]() The orange-and-red shag carpeting in your bedroom isn't as important as the hours you spent trying to make your Lincoln Logs stand up on it. It's not really the things that we loved it’s our memories of those things and how they fit into our lives. In a way, these two are decades only a native could take to heart. But if you loved your childhood home even though it wasn’t the most glamorous place on the block, you likely have fond memories of the years in which you grew up - no matter how goofy, no matter how clumsy. ![]() Those are goofy decades to embrace, with their avocado refrigerators and wood-paneled rec rooms, their leg warmers and shoulder pads. A lot of people our age hate the label "Generation X," preferring to call themselves children of the 1970s and 1980s. ![]()
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