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I remember loving this song. I know it was 1979 because it was also the year that I discovered that years are numbered. I thought that was so incredibly clever. Now I knew when I was. I was in 1979.

Slip, Slide and Away was a big hit that year. I remember singing it in the car while it played on the radio. I think that we were driving a Ford LTD that year, which was also my favorite of my parents' cars. LTD... it sounded so high-class. And it had electric windows! And a two-tone paint job!

I pondered the meaning of this song quite a bit. "You know you're nearer your destination the more you slip, slide, and away." I figured it had to have something to do with playground slides and I imagined myself going down an infinitely long slide toward my destination when I sang it.

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