Article: Youths' yen for `80s stumps survivor of era.

Byline: Barbara Brotman

It is intriguing, or maybe depressing, to see people reminisce fondly over years gone by when those people look young enough to call you "ma'am."

But it is even odder to watch the nostalgia bug infect people who were born after the years they are nostalgic about.

My daughters love "I Love the `80s," the pop culture nostalgia show that airs on VH1 pretty much all the time, or so it appears at our house.

No matter that my older daughter, Robin, spent what little she lived of the `80s teething. She and her 14-year-old friends can't get enough of watching cultural observers like Hal Sparks, Beyonce Knowles and ...

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