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Stop Trying to Make 90s Summer Happen

Thirty years later, the world my kids live in is unrecognizable from the one of my youth.

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Lauren Ahmed and The Pomegranate
Jul 03, 2025
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When I was a kid, I longed for summer break. The ideal of three blissful months of wandering the neighborhood, sticky from melted popsicles and smelling of chlorine, knocking on doors to see if I could rouse any of my friends while our moms sipped TaB and did Jane Fonda videos, utterly ignoring us— perfection. In Ohio where I grew up, …

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