“Break on Through to the Other Side” Traveling with Forrest Gump

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, sex was what bad girls did; at least that was the social propaganda. Even married couples on TV slept in twin beds. The shame of an unwanted pregnancy was something considered worse than death. Body parts were not called by their scientific names but by cutesy words that served …

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“Everybody’s Talkin”-Traveling with Forrest Gump

Like many people, I look back on my life and wonder how I made it out alive. I went to college at Oswego State in upstate New York. In the fall and spring, my college was beautiful because of its resort-style location right on Lake Ontario. I would find solitude on the rocky shores of …

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