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Erik P.M. Vermeulen, PhD
4 min readSep 1, 2023

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Friday, April 25, 1969. The day I was born.

As a teenager, I was proud of being born in the 1960s — the flickering embers of the 1960s, but still the sixties.

I don’t have a good explanation for my pride in this fact. But I guess it has something to do with feeling older, wiser, and better than my friends who were born in the 70s.

It’s the opposite of buying a car at year’s end, say December 22nd. Ten days later, on New Year’s Day, the car seems one year old already. But if you are born in December? That feels different. That makes you older in a good sense — instant maturity and wisdom,

And the special feeling of being born in the sixties never disappeared.

In My Life

Being born in 1969 feels like something magical. The first human set foot on the moon. The Internet was invented (at least a predecessor version of it). The Beatles recorded their final album with the iconic cover art — showing the four Beatles walking across a zebra crossing on Abbey Road.

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