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Enjoy this excerpt from
Chapter 1: “But We’re Too
Young to Be Grandparents.”
BY DIANA J. EWING
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Diana J. Ewing
of Laguna
Niguel, California,
spent
30 years in
advertising and
public relations
before venturing
into humor
writing. This is
her first book.
nce upon a time in the sixties
we baby boomers vowed never
to trust anybody over thirty.
Now our own thirtysomething
years are a distant memory,
and we keep getting mail from
AARP. Wait a minute, isn’t that
one of those organizations for
old people? Clearly, somebody
has made a mistake. We’re
still hip. We’re still relevant.
Our credentials are nothing but
cool.
Weren’t boomer gals glued
to black-and-white TV sets
across America every time
The Beatles appeared on The
Ed Sullivan Show? And right
away didn’t boomer guys
start growing their hair longer
accordingly?
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Wasn’t it us boomers who
danced the full seventeen minutes
to “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” having
no idea what it meant? And
weren’t we the ones who drove
our VW microbuses all the way to
Woodstock? Okay, maybe some
of us only saw the movie, but we
were there in spirit. It doesn’t get
any cooler than that....
As we struggled to distinguish
ourselves from the generations
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of GRAND Magazine - July/August 2011