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Roxy's avatar

Great piece - except how is mark zuckerberg a gen-Xer if he was born in 1984? I was born in 1980 and often get either tacked on as the tail end of gen X or the beginning of millennial, but I definitely definitely identify more with the Gen-X mentality and lack of visibility. I went to a great college (Mount Holyoke- still fighting to remain women-only ), and I can’t help but notice our class notes being sparse and many of us doing ok for ourselves but I and quite a few others are left wondering “what the hell happened?”. I blinked and now I’m 44 and watching our 90s grunge fashion cycle back around and bitterly wondering what the hell happened with the promises we were told growing up that as long as we went to a good college, everything would fall into place - we’d fulfill our potential and become world-changers.

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Robert Lamarche's avatar

One of the benefits of growing up poor/working class is that being comfortably in the upper middle class feels like a tremendous achievement. Also as a gay man being married with kids is more than I dared let myself imagine for years. And with my work I feel I make my mark on this world everyday. My life is not as flashy or expansive as those you mentioned above....but I am happy and that alone would seem to be a great success.

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