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By Bobby Ross Jr. | Religion Unplugged
KELLER, Texas — Ronald Reagan was president.
“Top Gun” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” were massive hits at the box office.
Telephones were attached to the wall, and long-distance calls were expensive. Not home? People left messages on answering machines.
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram landed in my driveway each morning, and when I had enough quarters, I bought the Dallas Morning News and the Dallas Times Herald at newsracks outside Food Fare, the only grocery store in this North Texas community.
Big hair was, um, big — both for the girls I knew and the pop culture that defined the time.
The year was 1986.
I graduated from Keller High School that May — exactly 40 years ago — so I find myself a bit nostalgic during this annual season of pomp and circumstance.
This column appears in the online magazine Religion Unplugged.
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