Kimberly Dee



I was born during the year 1973. I remember life from the time I was three years old. During the year, 1976, my dad made my sisters and me a big stereo. It looked like a long dresser. We could listen to the radio and play with the record player, we even had an 8-track player. Remember those? I was pretty good using one of those at the time. My older sister was in her teens at the time, so she played music a lot. I remember listening to a lot of Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, David and Shawn Cassidy, and Leif Garrett. Their songs grew on me. I still love their songs. She also hung huge posters of them all over her room.

I started watching a lot of television when I was four years old. I remember I loved hour long variety shows. Remember them? I watched Sonny & Cher, Dick Van Dyke's variety show, and The Mendell Sisters, and so on. I remember watching the very last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show at the time. I remember I was lost, because I didn't know what the plot of the show and I didn't know the characters at all. I guess it was very big then, and that was why I watched it. My sister had me watch Dukes of Hazards, Little House On The Prairie, and The Hardy Boys (with Shawn Cassidy) with her on television. I tease her about it now. It is crazy that I still remember those shows. At a very young age, I didn't watch many cartoon programs, because they bored me to death. Well, there was one cartoon show that I do remember that I could not live without, and that was called Battle of the Planets. I only enjoyed watching shows with live people. Taxi was one of my favorite sit-coms during the late `70's. During the early `80's, I gain a big interest in music. My first favorite singers were Olivia Newton-John and Cyndi Lauper. My idol was Pam Dawber from Mork & Mindy. I remember I wanted to look like her, and I did. We had the same hair style and our hair was the same color.

During the mid-`80's, I was into break-dancing, but I didn't know how to break dance. I just studied it and watched many people break dance.

Now that I am 25 (going on 26 this Summer), I am going through that stage that a lot of women go through in their mid-twenties to late twenties - being confused!!! You feel old and young at the same time. People start calling you "Ma'am", and it makes you sound old, and it can get scary. You also get out of the "pop culture" favoritism, and don't like music as much as you used to - like me. I'm getting back to listening to my ol' `80's music again. A few years ago, I did have my own radio show, and I played a lot of `80's music, and the young teenagers, thought I was crazy. I didn't know if they were going to call me "Granny".

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