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Jan 28, 2026 07:09PM

 
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She’d taken a picture of me in my carefully chosen clothes and a tremulous smile, holding a sign she’d painted in watercolors: First Day at the Lathrop School! The shot was probably already on her Facebook page, getting oohs and ahhs and ...more
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If she is 25 in modern day, then this instance from when she was in 6th grade took place in approximately August 2006. TheFacebook didn’t launch until 2004, dropped the “the” around 2005, and didn’t stop requiring school/.edu email addresses until September 2006. There’s no way in 2006 (or even 2007 if she was an older 6th grader) her mom, aunts, uncles, and grandparents were all using Facebook. Just saying..
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