1976 was the american bicentennial. i was five years old that year america turned 200. in honour of the event, my mother made me a floor length dresses in white fabric covered in small liberty bells and american flags. the dress had a matching bonnet, and i wore it for my kindergarten class picture. i remember this only because as a high school senior, i went back to clarksville and went out with friends i hadn't seen for a decade. one of the guys from my class looked up my old photos in his school yearbooks, and there i was, a five year old in my bicentennial bonnet. it's amazing he ever talked to me again but he still asked me out on a date the next night.
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