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1. You or someone you know lived on a cul-de-sac
2. You participated in elaborate bike rides and races in the summer
3. And elaborate sledding races on snow days in the winter
4. You spent nearly every Friday night at the mall
5. Or the movies
6. You had an elaborate weekly system for whose mom would drive there and whose would pick up
7. One or both of your parents drove a minivan or an SUV
8. You celebrated your birthday by having dinner with friends at Chili's, TGI Friday's, or Friendly's
9. There was nowhere you wanted to go within walking distance of your house
10. You went to school with mainly the same group of people until high school graduation
11. You counted down to your 16th birthday for years
12. Half the kids you went to school with got cars for their sweet sixteen
13. You spent a lot of time hanging around in parking lots
14. Or just driving around aimlessly with your friends
15. Everyone went to the same late night diner
16. Abercrombie and Hollister might as well have been your school uniform
17. You absolutely couldn't go to school without stopping at Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts beforehand
18. You went to the football game every Friday night
19. If you went to college out-of-state, when people asked where you were from you'd just say the nearest big city
20. Going to a Dave Matthews concert is like going to a high school reunion
21. Public transportation still sometimes mystifies you
22. You complained for years about your boring town
23. But looking back, you had a pretty good time
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