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The Reason I Have Been Missing Most Of The Day

JonesCarpeDiem
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The first professional group I was in and touring with out of high school was the Young Americans.

They are still around youngamericans.org

 

Anyway, they began in 1962 and this year is the 50 year Anniversary so they are having a 50 year reunion at their current college campus April 13, 14, 15.

Well, someone asked me if I had any pictures of the people in my era who have passed away to make a memorium presentation.

I spent all day finding my young americans memoribilia and photos and removing them from their albums, scanning them, cropping them and labeling them.

They were finishing up a movie for Columbia pictures when I joined the group. I declined to get involved because I was still in high school full time and it was over 100 miles each way.

The movie won the Academy Award for best documentary that year but was disquaified because someone found out there had been a preview someplace in the south a week before it was allowed.

The first link is 8 x10 movie stills.

http://s1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb341/WhoheBe/Young%20Americans%20MovieStills%208%20x%2010s/?alb...

The second link is some of my touring with them.

http://s1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb341/WhoheBe/Young%20Americans%205%20x%207s%20and%20smaller/?al...

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Hello, My name is Dale. I was quit 18 months before joining this site and had participated on another site during that time. I learned a lot there and brought it with me. I joined this site the first week of August 2008. I didn't pressure myself to quit. HOW I QUIT I didn't count, I didn't deny myself to get started. When I considered quitting (at a friends request to influence his brother to quit), I simply told myself to wait a little longer. No denial, nothing painful. After 4 weeks I was down to 5 cigarettes from a pack a day. The strength came from proving to myself, I didn't need to smoke because I normally would have smoked. Simple yes? I bought the patch. I forgot to put one on on the 4th day. I needed it the next day but the following week I forgot two days in a row I put one in my wallet with a promise to myself that I would slap it on and wait an hour rather than smoke. It rode in my wallet my first year.There's nothing keeping any of you from doing this. It doesn't cost a dime. This is about unlearning something you've done for a long time. The nicotine isn't the hard part. Disconnecting from the psychological pull, the memories and connected emotions is. :-) Time is the healer.