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Where did this go? Can we find one and bring it back? Rides today suck

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Mood rings were a huge thing and we swore they told everyone everything- a bit like the facebook status of yesteryears

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Your parents banning this cartoon because it was inappropriate

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Calling out which color you were heading for in the computer lab because it was YOUR color and your computer damnit

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Why did we do this?

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More ways we shared what was on our minds

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No one talks about that brief period in the 90s where teens everywhere sucked pacifiers. They were too small for our mouths, we looked ridiculous, teachers fussed, but we made our statement (whatever the hell that was)

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With a friendship pin on the front

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We all had that one friend who went too far and wound up in traction from car surfing.

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You heard this just now

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The bulky plastic camera you begged your mom to buy you for vacation but then regretted when you realized how bulky it was and that you had to carry it. Then you lost it. Someone somewhere has your half spent roll of Disney pic

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Listening to Aqua with your friends as you swam that one summer

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Kids today will never get to dance on the tables of Joes Crab shack and the horror on your mother's face as people at every table climbed up and danced the macarena over their fried shrimp platters.

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Watches that played music (or chirped music) every hour

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Malls. Being a mall rat. Friday nights spent hanging out, buying cheap things, eating in the food court, and catching up with all of your friends (and frenemies) from school.

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Everyone had that one friend who filled the furniture up with helium and pulled it off the ceiling when we wanted to sit in it

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After PE, the entire building reeked of this smell

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Before things like beach moonlight breeze and little black dress, Bath and Body had simple, sweet, pure scents like French Vanilla and Sunripened Raspberry. What a time to be alive. Now the scents are all of the old fragrances dumped into a tub to make whatever's out there now

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The days where we had to talk on phones, when it meant talking to your friend's family while you waited for them to get to the phone and canceling plans had to happen before the other person left because once they did you were 100% committed and locked into the plans since there was no way to let them know you weren't going.

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Everyone had this exact tape player

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Having to buy a half size bigger shoe because we stacked socks two-three colors at a time (and it helped you express which group you belonged to)

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This tacky thing we all wanted that lit up the night when it rang. It was the first phone you could turn the volume off and still know someone was calling.

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When we were kids, kids weren't allowed to get dye jobs. We had koolade and this stuff that sometimes turned your hair orange

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The precursor to texting in class. Writing a note, carefully folding it up (there were many folding styles to choose from) and then expertly getting this to the person (sometimes entrusting half of the class to help your note reach its destination). We worked as a team, us against the teacher!

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Before facebook, this is how we carried our quotes and memes

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Chokers and yin yang jewelry everywhere

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Pants legs so wide you could hide your pets and little brother

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Carrying this to your friend's sleep over and making sure you had a different one so it wouldn't get mixed up

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They were horrible, strange, and probably bad for us but we drank them because they looked so awesome

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Reading this exact book by flashlight because we didn't need tablets to get us to sleep

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Stocking your wallet with club membership cards. Before apps, we had these cards to get freebies and perks- grocery stores, radio stations, even soft drinks like coke and pepsi made you a card carrying member and even though our wallets didn't have credit/debit cards back then, we could still carry plastic

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This smell after gym glass that filled the locker room