One visitor to the festival Max Hall, a record producer, said that he still used a Commodore 64 in recordings: "A lot of the sounds are really useable so it's fantastic, I think it's reminiscing back to my childhood".

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The link between family size and social standing is a subject close to my heart and goes back to my own childhood in Karakore, a small town in Ethiopia, where I grew up the eldest of seven children.

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I'm yanked back to my own childhood, when I was an obsessive collector of baseball cards.

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And the moment that I matured enough to be able to think on my own, I kind of rejected the religious tenets of my childhood and had to come back to it on my own - on my own terms.

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"I guess you could say that I'm pulling ideas back from my childhood of listening to country radio back in Greenville, Texas, " he says.

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They've traced back my childhood all the way to the age of 8.

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Interspersed throughout are my personal stories and life-changing experiences my childhood in China, my arrival in the United States, and my visits back to China over the years.

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Trying to catch and release those slippery buggers brings back great memories from my childhood.

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