Most Thursday nights, I volunteer with high school kids at a church youth group. Because of how I sometimes act, and maybe also because of how I sometimes dress, the high schoolers don’t realize that I am as old as I am — that I am, in fact, twice the age of some of them. Usually, I get “wow, really?”s and “no way!”s but this response was a first:<\/p>\n
“So, how old are you?” asked the teenage girl.<\/p>\n
“28,” I said.<\/p>\n
“28?!”<\/p>\n
“Yes,” I smiled. “28.”<\/p>\n
“Wait, so when were you born?” She asked, puzzled.<\/p>\n
“1975.”<\/p>\n
Her jaw dropped. “Oh my god. So you were, like, alive during all<\/i> of the ’80s!”<\/p>\n
My heart sank. “You weren’t?”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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