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*sigh* what a question... I need to spend way more time with this but... from the hip:

Childhood: Sandlot or Mighty Ducks

Jr High: Can't Hardly Wait

High School: Jackass

College: Rock Star

Post-college:

Boiler Room

Away We Go

Silicon Valley

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That's a bulls-eye of a hip shot! If I didn't already know you really well, I'd know you really well. The Jackass chapter of your life might have scared me off, but the Away We Go would have brought me back.

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I'll win you over to Jackass yet...

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I love this so much!!! The way you describe your childhood could have been mine. You made me so nostalgic for that magical time and now I just might have to recreate it. (And yeah, why were all of those movies Lindsay Lohan lol)

Mine would have to be:

Childhood: Hook

Middle School: Austin Powers

High School: Zoolander, Legally Blonde, Friends

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That's so funny- I almost scrapped this last night because I thought it was way too specific to me. Turns out, those specificities are often the most universal things. And the most bonding- we have so many movies in common (I think about the food fight in Hook all.the.time!) - it's like a shortcut for turning a stranger into a friend.

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So true!!!! Bangarang roofio!!!

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Without question, The Breakfast Club.

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Ah, such a good one! John Hughes really set the tone (and the standards) for what growing up looked like. Which character was your avatar?

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Sadly, the nerd

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...or luckily! If the movies taught us anything, it's that the nerds and misfits and oddballs are often the ones who really thrive after high school. If anything, I think this means you're primed to take over the world.

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