Just a little light stocking!

cal-retroart-0814-392_LHave you seen those “where are they now” ads on websites. They usually are for child stars from shows when I was a kid or one hit wonders who we watched on MTV and then never heard of again. Some of them are entertaining some are really sad. You find out a beloved character was played by someone who is now dead or in jail. Some of them are a surprise that they are doing well but it seems they are the few that make it into adulthood without totally losing their mind. Their story gets told because a lot of us wonder what happened to them. There are people from my past that are not famous that I wonder where they are now? Some like the kids who used to live on my block when I was young. We ran in a pack from house to house getting chased out by mom’s who all told us the same thing to “go play outside”. Or when we moved the two neighbor brothers who collected baseball card from every player on all the teams every year and put them in shoeboxes. Are they multimillionaires now? How about the guy who would ride a bicycle doing a wheelie for miles, is he still able to do that in his fifties? I guess I could look them up on Facebook but I don’t want to friend them just a little light stocking to curb my curiosity. If they are or were famous it is OK, if they are not it seems a little creepy!

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