Alabama bans Cycles Gladiator wine

[shootingstar]

I was raised in Birmingham until I left for college. I graduated from Berry High School in 1975. No family there at all now. I have quite a few stories as well (and fond memories). I'm so proud of being a southerner now, but in the '70s I wanted nothing more than to rid myself of the southern accent. I always say that at my college, I was diversity. I was the girl from Alabama.

It'll be a first for me..to meet someone raised in the Deep South once upon a time. Looking forward to seeing you, skinmini!

Was your diversity experience the same as mine?: 1 of 4 Canadians of Asian descent in nearly 1,000 university undergraduate students majoring in English literature at a large yuppie-oriented university in southern Ontario? (For Canadians, this was NOT Toronto. It was London, Ontario, early 1980's.) Of course, the rest were Caucasian..ok, maybe there was 1 student of Afro descent.

Amazingly, I even questioned once or twice during my studies why I was even part of that program since part of English literature canon requires understanding biblical allusions in major older works (pre-Victorian literature)...but that's digressing.