Gen X Childhood Things That Wouldn’t Fly Today

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“My parents won tickets to an Amnesty International Concert at Maple Leaf Gardens. They had no interest in going, so they told me I could take a friend since I liked Bruce Springsteen and Peter Gabriel. The two of us were 12 and took the subway from our suburban Toronto school directly to the concert in Downtown Toronto in the 1980s (which was not the nice, clean, sanitized Toronto that it became in the late ’90s).”

“The concert went FOREVER, but we somehow managed to get the last subway at around 1:30 a.m. (luckily, it was well known how early the subways closed, so we left the concert before the official end). There were no…

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