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Yeah and you knew they knew what you were doing. And why is her mother answering her phone anyway?

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Because Sylvia still lived at home with her parents and it was their home phone.

'Member when, if the folks had the money, they got a second line and it was listed as "Teenagers phone" in the directory?

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oh yeah, I remember party lines also.

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We never had that (mostly for the rural folks), but I knew kids that did. It was all in the ring pattern.

And the prefixes all were words, abbreviated. Windsor, Victor, Melrose, etc. and you knew what part of the city they lived in by that.