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rydra_wong ([personal profile] rydra_wong) wrote in [community profile] metaquotes2019-01-01 04:33 pm

[personal profile] james_davis_nicoll has a thought

It's weird to think someone born in 2000 was sixteen in 2016 and now at the end of 2018 they're about fifty.


Context has had a long couple of years.
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2019-01-01 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
So true

[personal profile] notasupervillain 2019-01-01 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah.
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[personal profile] kore 2019-01-01 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
TRUE STORY.
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[personal profile] sara 2019-01-02 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
...you laugh, but my older kid was born in 2003 and that's pretty much EXACTLY how it's been.
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[personal profile] 22degreehalo 2019-01-02 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Hah. I was born in the early 90s and yet somehow this still feels accurate. Including the 16 part. :')
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[personal profile] vass 2019-01-02 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh god, true.
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[personal profile] fred_mouse 2019-01-02 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
As a parent of someone born in 2000, I kind of feel that *I've* gained more years than I should have, but they could still do with having gained a few more. Mind you, I have been teaching them to drive :)