Highlights from 1995
If you were alive 17 years ago, yesterday, here are a few things you might have been talking about.
The top songs from that year:
- Big Poppa
by Notorious B.I.G. - Buddy Holly
- Dear Mama by Tupac
- Fantasy by Mariah Carey
- Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio
- This is how we do it by Montell Jordan
- You Oughta Know by Alanis Morissette
Top album of the year, History Past, Present and Future Book I
by Michael Jackson.
You might have been talking about one of the summer’s blockbuster hits:
- Batman Forever
- Apollo 13
- TToy Story (the original)
- Pocahontas
- Ace Ventura
Or you might have just seen my favorite movie from 1995 – Braveheart
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You could have been following one of these top news stories:
- The Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh
- The OJ Simpson murder trial
- The Kobe, Japan earthquake (killing over 5,000 people)
- The 49ers winning the previous Superbowl.
- The record setting pace on the Dow Jones – up to 4400 in August!
August 12, 1995
My highlight from 1995 happened on August 12, 1995. That Saturday, Kia and I were married. It remains one of the best days of my life.
Over the past 17 years, Kia and I together have watched major news stories come and go. We’ve attended and graduated from college. We started and quit jobs. We opened and closed businesses. We’ve brought 4 children into the world. We’ve bought and sold homes. We’ve dreamed and cried.
We have done it all together.
It’s not easy.
Let me be quick to distill any brewing myth…it’s not been easy. We’ve had to fight for our marriage. We’ve had to learn to cling to one another.
This past year has been one of us drawing closer together than we’ve ever been before. In this year, I’ve seen Kia’s strength, creativity, vision, passion, fear, intensity, anger, and love more than ever before.
I’m proud to say Kia’s my wife.
Happy Anniversary, Kia Antisdel Bondurant. I love you.
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