R.I.P. John

[magic1]

It's hard to believe that it was 25 years ago....I was 14 at the time, and I must have cried for a week. My grandmother had died a few months earlier, and I cried less for her! But my grandmother was old, and John Lennon's was the first death I experienced that seemed so out of the blue, and so unfair. I remember watching on TV the huge vigil that

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[jivetalkinmama]

I can't believe it's been that long either...seems like just yesterday...

[magic1]

we are now (approximately) the same age he was when he died....

[shirecreature]

I was a huge Beatle fan in high school, and I was devastated when he was killed. And my parents made me go to school that day!! I don't even know now if my brain can handle the fact that someone as special as him could be just erased with a few bullets, when it happened I couldn't accept it at all.

[magic1]

I went to school too, but we spent all of my English class talking about John Lennon - old teacher, Mr. Holden - was a big hippie. And it kicked off the one and olnly hardcore pothead period of my life - for some reason, I started hanging out with the burnouts and smoking every day. I was tired of that by spring. Maybe I thought that smoking would help me make sense of it?

Just got back from Strawberry Fields. I took a few photos and if any are good I'll post them.