Seven years ago, when I was in college, I fell in love for the first time, and fell hard. We both made lots of mistakes because of youth and inexperience, but at the time I really wished that we could have tried again. He broke off the relationship suddenly, partially because he said he didn't think he'd ever get married or have a family. For a few years I thought of him as "the one that got away." Years later, I am in a good, happy long term relationship, that is healthy and that I enjoy. Via my alumni magazine, I recently found out that he got married about a year after we were last together, and that he's got children. I should be happy for him, but instead I feel like I've been punched in the gut. This doesn't make sense. What can I do to move my thoughts onward, and to stop thinking about what could have been when what I have is good?
posted by anonymous
on May 19, 2013 -
13 answers
A while back my sister left a message on my mom's answering machine, saying "Hi mom, we had a baby girl..." and then she goes on to describe the birth of her daughter and how cute she was, basically leaving an audio record of this wonderful occasion. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to save this recording.
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posted by anonymous
on May 15, 2013 -
33 answers
What is the lay of the land of with Sony Ericsson phones these days? I used to have their Walkman phones up until five years ago, and they were fantastic, with features I miss almost every day since I transitioned to the iphone. I could do video editing on those things, even adding a soundtrack from songs I had on the phone! Plus, I could leave messages to myself on the front screen, and other super-helpful things-- and that was all before they even had micro SD slots, which sound great. Now that my iphone is almost kaput I thought I'd investigate a bit, but I can't find a good overview of the different phones.
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posted by thegreatfleecircus
on Oct 9, 2012 -
4 answers
Nostalgia Zone - Does anyone remember a little yellow duck/duckling toy that had a cocoa or chocolate scent? It's from the early 80's and was a hard toy but it was really soft and fuzzy. PLEASE HELP because I can't sleep until I figure this out. Thanks!
posted by Little Orphan Ennui
on Oct 8, 2012 -
6 answers
I have about 3 smallish boxes of old school things from high school through university. I'd like to get rid of some of it, and keep the rest in some kind of (inexpensive) way that is compact and more or less won't fall apart. Do other people do this? (scrapbooks? photo albums? ruthless scanning?) How?
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posted by oranger
on Sep 25, 2012 -
9 answers
I've recently been watching Twin Peaks again, and I've been wondering... to people who actually watched it air in its original run, what was it like seeing something like this on TV? Did you have watching parties that I've heard so much about? Was the reveal of the killer and the twists and turns along the way surprising? Did you watch until the end of the second season, and were you disappointed when it got the plug pulled on it?
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posted by codacorolla
on Aug 3, 2012 -
66 answers
What was this show - late night UK channel 4 community-service soap opera.
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posted by xchmp
on Jul 18, 2012 -
2 answers
There have been questions about Cold War songs from the '80s (
1,
2,
3). What about songs about the Cold War from the
2000s?
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posted by flawsekno
on May 7, 2012 -
7 answers
Quitting a prestigious job I really enjoyed but grew incompatible with, starting a new one that has more promise, but is still an unknown. I've listened the hell out of Moody Blues' "Story In Your Eyes" and Simple Minds' "Don't You." What other songs capture the essence of a bittersweet ending and an exciting but uncertain future?
posted by Slap*Happy
on Mar 30, 2012 -
18 answers
After almost a decade of hard work and loyalty, I have decided to retire my old hiking daypack. Today I went out and bought a new one, but can't decide whether or not to move the patches from the old one to the new one.
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posted by Elly Vortex
on Mar 28, 2012 -
18 answers
You've lived in New York/Brooklyn your whole life. You're moving to Southern California in three months. You have a lot of free time. (No car, but access to Zipcar.) You realize you won't be back in New York for a long time. You're making a list of everything you want to do before you go - places you want to visit, things you want to see, things you want to eat. What's on your list?
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posted by blackcatcuriouser
on Mar 28, 2012 -
45 answers
Classic Mac Game Filter: You write a screenplay synopsis and try to market your movie. I remember pulling this one off an old MacAddict CD-ROM back in the day. Maybe you remember it?
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posted by littlerobothead
on Aug 6, 2011 -
5 answers
Nostalgia? Place Memory? Grief? Saudade? What Causes this Feeling? What part of the brain controls/causes memories and feelings to be triggered by places or events? Is it different than the memory-smell connection? Is there anything stronger to explain these associations in the brain other than nostalgia?
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posted by gov_moonbeam
on Jul 31, 2011 -
6 answers
Looking for pictures of (or anecdotes about!) Island Fantasy, a direct-market comic shop in Victoria, BC that was active in the mid-80s.
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posted by Bobby Bittman
on Jul 24, 2011 -
1 answer
Can someone locate the complete playlist of a cassette that was included with the purchase of a Mercury Marquis station wagon in 1984?
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posted by germdisco
on Jul 19, 2011 -
8 answers
Is there a good online repository for technology geek ephemera from the 80s? I'm thinking of a teenage kid in his 80s bedroom holding a soldering iron, working on a hobby project next to his C64. Would love to see imagery, video, back issues of magazines, whatever.
posted by circular
on May 12, 2011 -
6 answers
Please recommend articles/books/etc. which talk about broadcast media and American suburbia in the 1970s and 1980s.
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posted by mykescipark
on Jan 27, 2011 -
2 answers
Is superglue not as good as it used to be? When I was a teenager in the 70s I used to make models of polyhedra using just toothpicks and superglue. I have been trying to recreate those recently and having no luck. I am holding two toothpick ends together as still as I can for 30-60 seconds and getting nothing.
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posted by bitslayer
on Jan 5, 2011 -
12 answers
Okay, I have scoured the "Worldwide Web" for YEARS trying to remember the name of a tv series that used to air on TLC back in the 90s (in the days of actual "learning"....). It was a British show--or, at least, the host was British--and it was called something like The Most Amazing Machine or the Incredible Machine or something like that.....
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posted by oohisay
on Nov 10, 2010 -
11 answers
What was the name of a 1980s educational software package for the Apple ][ series that gave stories to read and asked multiple choice questions to test your knowledge?
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posted by NBJack
on Oct 8, 2010 -
4 answers
Why do I care about not being invited to a high school reunion I wouldn't have wanted to go in the first place? Do I have too much time on my hands this morning?
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posted by braemar
on Aug 21, 2010 -
21 answers
Can you identify these 90s cartoon cats from Happy Meals or some other restaurant prizes?
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posted by lily_bart
on Jun 22, 2010 -
66 answers
Do you remember drinking some kind of orange drink out of plastic oranges? Particularly at movie theaters or amusement parks, and probably a few decades ago? I'm looking for information!
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posted by penduluum
on Jun 18, 2010 -
35 answers
I am looking for information -- author, publisher, possibly title -- about a particular illustrated version of Verne's From the Earth to the Moon.
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posted by flechsig
on Jun 6, 2010 -
4 answers
Do you remember an old Mac game where you play as a wizard's apprentice who goes to a magic store?
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posted by Gordafarin
on Jun 5, 2010 -
10 answers
Does anyone else recall a creepy version of the Teddy Bear's picnic from the 80's? (it was a cartoon) I think I may have seen it on Nickelodeon.
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posted by iabide79
on May 17, 2010 -
11 answers
My sister and I have been trying to remember a computer game from our childhood. It was on a Macintosh, and involved a stick-figure man who tried to go up levels using ladders, but could also fall down through space from whatever level was on.
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posted by warble
on Mar 24, 2010 -
19 answers
Is there a word, term, or phrase for comments along the lines of "This bar (club, restaurant, event, party, public space, etc) used to be cool, but now it sucks." ?
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posted by Pickman's Next Top Model
on Mar 8, 2010 -
56 answers
What is the terminal-type thing I used in a New York State elementary school in the mid- to late-70s and early 80s?
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posted by exlotuseater
on Feb 9, 2010 -
6 answers
