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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;This is my very first post.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;joined several months ago but the only writing I've done is commenting on other people's posts.&amp;nbsp; I guess one of these days I'll get around to writing something for real, but for now this questionnaire will have to do.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;1. First prom date:&amp;nbsp; I wasn't the prom kinda girl&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;2: First love: Angie, when I was 18-19.....my heart was broken for years after we broke up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;3. First alcoholic drink: a beer, which I thought was the nastiest thing I'd ever tasted&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;4. First job: I worked as a janitor at an elementary school the summer between 10th and 11th grades&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;5. First car: a puke green '75 Mustang&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;6. First person to text you today:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I don't text&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;7. First person I thought of this morning:&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-right: 0px"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I can't remember&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;8. First thing I did this morning:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-right: 0px"&gt;&amp;nbsp;got up, took a shower, got ready for work&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;9. First grade teacher:&amp;nbsp; Mrs. Lawson at Sunnyside Elementary in Garden Grove CA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;10. First plane ride: from Salt Lake City back to California with my family when I was&amp;nbsp;5 or 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;11. First best friend:&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-right: 0px"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Dennise C.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;12. First sleepover:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I slept over at Tammy Fitch's house when I was about 9.&amp;nbsp; Totally didn't want to go but my mom made me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;13. First person talked to today: a co-worker&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;14. First wedding:&amp;nbsp;I was a flower girl in my half-sister's wedding when I was 6.&amp;nbsp; I was so scared, I forgot to drop the flower petals along the way&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;15. First tattoo:&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-right: 0px"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;none&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;16. First piercing:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-right: 0px"&gt;&amp;nbsp;my ears&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="background-image: none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: repeat; background-color: white"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;17: First concert:&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-right: 0px"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Starship - when "We Built This City" was popular (Grace Slick was still a goddess)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="background-image: none; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: repeat; background-color: white"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;18. First Foreign Country: haven't been to one yet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;19: First movie seen in the theater:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I have absolutely no idea, but we used to go to Disney movies a lot when I was a kid and I remember seeing Sleeping Beauty at the theater and being absolutely entranced with the evil queen, especially when she's about to fight the Prince and she says something about using all the powers of hell&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;20: First detention:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin-right: 0px"&gt;&amp;nbsp;once and only once! In 12th grade for skipping English class&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;21. First state lived in: California&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;22. First of three wishes: I wish my mom was still alive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;&lt;span style="margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: black; margin-right: 0px"&gt;23: First thing I would learn if I had the chance: another language like French or Italian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;24. First Kiss: David Christiansen, who tried to swallow my face in the movie theater&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline"&gt;25. First serious injury: I tore the lateral collateral ligament in my ankle during the first practice of volleyball season.&amp;nbsp; I had to wear a cast for 6 weeks and then had another 6 weeks of physical therapy (aka personal torture).&amp;nbsp; So much for volleyball that year.&lt;/p&gt;

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