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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:53:00 EST
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- From: Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: X or 13? You decide! (was Re: Now for something..)
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- >So, why Thirteen? Doesn't "say" anything to me -- I certainly don't find
- >any reason to relate to being called a member of "Generation 13". Rather
- >seems to defeat the point of calling us "X". We have no place, thus "X".
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- The authors assert that you're the 13th generation since the Founding
- Fathers. They name several of the generations (working backwards:
- Thirteener, Boomer, Silent, GI, ...), but offer nothing more to
- support the assertion.
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