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'The flow of life moved on, we got older, meanwhile our interest expanded to dances and boys.'
The flow of life moved on, we got older, meanwhile our interest expanded to dances and boys. Boyfriends then were usually altar boys or boy scouts who too were attached to the Franciscans. At the time, a bicycle was a great accessory to own and I…
'I turned 13 in 1958, just two years away from the 1960s, when the whole world was turned upside down. '
I think the term 'teenager' was much a late 1950s invention, most probably thought up by an American marketing man looking for a new group to sell his wares to. The music industry latched on to it and songs such as 'Teenager in love' topped the…