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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.