"For long as I could remember, the house on the Larkin Street Hill had been home. Papa and Mama had both born in Norway but they came to San Francisco because Mama's sisters were here, all of us were born here. I remember Nels, the oldest and the only boy, my sister Christine and the littlest sister Dagmar, but first and foremost I remember Mama."--Famous line from a once-famous TV program, "I Remember Mama" "When I was eleven, I used to build electronic gadgets in our basement." "I used to walk to my elementary school. I remember every detail of that walk so clearly that it is almost as if I were there." "When I was a kid, my parents put me to bed at 8 p.m., and then they would watch television. Before I fell asleep, I could hear the opening music of the crime program 'Dragnet,' and I remember wondering what it was." Incidentally... there is a word, "nostalgia," for the feeling you get when you talk about these memories--that strange mixture of pleasure, sadness, and a wish to go back to those days.

"When I was a child...." "When I was a teenager...." For example "When I was a child, I used to love to build snow forts" "When I was a teenager, my friends and I used to hang out at the mall" "During my teenage years, I would play music on my Walkman"

"When I was a child, I played games and read books." "When I was a teenager, I liked to play video games."