# Was I alive in 3 or 4 different decades?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 11, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-i-alive-in-3-or-4-different-decades/650018 "2013-02-11T20:46:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-i-alive-in-3-or-4-different-decades/650018/81 "2013-07-29T15:55:45Z")

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Stephen Colbert makes fun of this sort of thing by referring to how he attended the 1963 March on Washington and heard MLKJr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Autoplaying [video](http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/424438/march-06-2013/voting-rights-act).

It’s not something most people would take seriously.

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**Author:** ![donnie\_darko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@donnie\_darko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donnie_darko)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-i-alive-in-3-or-4-different-decades/650018/82 "2013-07-30T01:44:49Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> Stephen Colbert makes fun of this sort of thing by referring to how he attended the 1963 March on Washington and heard MLKJr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech.
> 
> Autoplaying [video](http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/424438/march-06-2013/voting-rights-act).
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> It’s not something most people would take seriously.

Hahahaha.

I do remember fairly close to when I was born, though. I can remember as far back as 92/93.

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