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Where Are They Now ?

Brian Dickens Barrabee
2 min readMay 16, 2021

It appears we have a never ending curiosity in discovering how our fellow humans mature.

Favorite TV and movie stars, sports figures, high school classmates and teachers, neighbors; all grist from the memory mill.

We seem to have an unquenchable thirst to find out how our memories of these folks have to be adjusted repeatedly as the years go on by.

How would YOU look under the Where Are They Now microscope?

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Seems like the main means of mass communication can’t keep up with people’s interest in discovering how memorable individuals in their lives fare as they grow older.

It’s hard to measure whether the consumers want the notable people in their existence to have aged extremely well or extremely poorly. I tend to think either one is acceptable.

The imperative is extreme.

How embarrassing it must be to many who would simply choose to live out their years without their notoriety constantly following them. The moms and dads the grandmas and grandpas desirous of being allowed to parent in…

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Brian Dickens Barrabee
Brian Dickens Barrabee

Written by Brian Dickens Barrabee

Very much involved with the world and likes nothing better than writing about its absurdities. Award winning author who guarantees a laugh or two a story.

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