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Prom Photos From Our Readers

Name: Kathleen Maddux Pearlman
High School: Valley High School, Valley Station, KY
Year photo taken: 1970

Memory:
I snipped out my date of the evening, who pinched me just as the photographer took the picture. The pcrous stylerom theme that year was "Aquarius". Between the senior and junior classes that year (the prom was the Senior-Junior Prom)there were over 1000 students, but I have no idea how many attended the prom. My hair was such a ludricrous style, but had seemed so sophisticated when I saw it in a magazine. It took hours and a lot of pain to get all the teaasing asnd hair pins out of it. My dad thought my boyfriend was beating me up because of the screeching wehen he was trying to help me brush it out the next day.

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Kathleen Maddux Pearlman

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Photos from: The 21st-Century American Prom »