Too much information

By Lisa Brown

Contributing Columnist

I'm now (GULP) 51 years-old (shout out to all my buddies from the class of 1981!!) and it occurred to me a couple of days ago, that when I was a young innocent gal of 15 the only thing I really had to worry about was if the Piggly Wiggly had (BOTTLED) Dr. Pepper in stock or if Gopher was ever going to find a good woman on the Love Boat each week. I wasn't vapid by the way, we just didn't have access to a stream of 24 hour information back then. I think in many ways those of us that did a lot of our growing up before the internet boom were perhaps a bit luckier than the children and teens that are inundated with instant everything today.

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