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Todd: Hey Meg, so let's about our life .

Meg: Okay, let's do it.

Todd: So first, when were you ?

Meg: I was born in 1984. What about you?

Todd: I was born way before that. I was born in 1969.

Meg: Oh!

Todd: Yeah, a ways ago.

Meg: Not too ago.

Todd: Yeah, 47 years ago, but yeah.

Meg: Okay, a long time ago.

Todd: Okay, so when did you high school?

Meg: I high school in 2003.

Todd: Oh my gosh. !

Meg: What about you?

Todd: Wow, I graduated high school in 1987.

Meg: Ah, when I was three old.

Todd: Wow, yeah! Ah, we were about the same level about that time.

Meg: No, that's not .

Todd: And when did you graduate from college?

Meg: I graduated from college in 2010. When did you graduate from college?

Todd: I graduated from college in 1993, so like you I a little extra time to graduate.

Meg: Yeah, I took more time than .

Todd: And when did you get your first job?

Meg: I my first job when I was 17 years old, I think. When I was still in high school.

Todd: What did you do?

Meg: I at a wedding shop, a wedding dress shop, so I to the and clean the .

Todd: That's a cool job.

Meg: Ah, it wasn't so great .

Todd: Why?

Meg: Because can get a little .

Todd: I can .

Meg: What about you? When was your first job?

Todd: Well, my first job was when I was 13. I was a dishwasher.

Meg: Oh, at a restaurant?

Todd: Yeah, and I think it was because I was 13. But yeah, I was a dishwasher. But then my first job was at McDonald's.

Meg: Oh, what did you do there?

Todd: I the filet-o-fish. But I got .

Meg: Oh, why?

Todd: Also, again I about my age. So actually wait, I was 14, and I lied and said I was 15 and they fired me, but I worked there for three .

Meg: Oh, and you got ?

Todd: And I got paid.

Meg: Well, that's good at least.

Todd: It was good times. Good times.

Meg: (Laughter)

Todd: OK, so when did you your best friend?

Meg: I my best friend in 2007, so about 10 ago. What about you?

Todd: Oh gosh, I met my best friend in high school, so I was a sophomore, a second year , so that was 1984 or 1985.

Meg: Wow! So you've been best for a long time.

Todd: A long time, yeah, yep. So how about ? When did you get your first phone?

Meg: Hmm! I think I got my first phone when I was also 17, the same year I my first job. It was my first cell-phone, was that year. What about you?

Todd: Well, I got my first phone also when I was 17, but it was a phone. My me my own phone line in my house, so I had a phone in my room. Back then that was in the 80s, so young high school people would have their own phone in their house.

Meg: Yeah, some of my had that when I was up also, but I wasn't enough to get my own phone until I could for it myself.