Tom's story: 1996
6 pieces on this page. Click a picture or "See the whole card" to open the card.
1996 — Tom was 17 and 18
6 pieces on this year: 6 dated to this year.
DATED TO 1996
1523Lynnfield High School Wrestling Team Awards Dinner
April 1, 1996 (age 17) PROVED
SCHOOL AND GROWING-UP KEEPSAKES
Tom's light-blue spiral-bound program from the Lynnfield High School Wrestling Team Awards Dinner, April 1, 1996, with pencil doodles on the cover and an alumni page listing Tom Jensen, 1996.
the card says: made at age 17
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1546Lynnfield Wrestling Awards Dinner Program, April 1, 1996
April 1, 1996 (age 17) PROVED
OBJECTS AND KEEPSAKES (TICKETS, POSTERS, SIGNS, SHIRTS, A GUITAR)
A group of Tom's Red Sox and other event ticket stubs, including Fenway Park games against the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees in 1995, kept with a program from the Lynnfield High School Wrestling Team Awards Dinner of April 1, 1996.
the card says: made at age 17
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1539Lynnfield High School Graduation Program
June 16, 1996 (age 17) PROVED
SCHOOL AND GROWING-UP KEEPSAKES
The printed program from Tom's own Lynnfield High School graduation at 2:00 p.m. on June 16, 1996, a cream cardstock booklet listing Thomas Robert Jensen among the graduates.
the card says: made at age 17
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1852Conditional
November 20, 1996 (age 18) PROVED
ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS (NOT LYRICS)
Tom's handwritten college essay CONDITIONAL, UNCONDITIONAL (WITH CONDITIONS) AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE (November 20, 1996) on lined paper held with a paperclip, arguing that love is a word used too loosely, with the teacher's grade and comments.
the card says: made at age 18
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1830Movie Revue
December 11, 1996 (age 18) PROVED
ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS (NOT LYRICS)
Tom's typed college movie review of SEVEN (December 11, 1996), with his own handwritten notes, predictions and doodles in pen, pencil and blue crayon on the title page and back.
the card says: made at age 18
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1882Doctor Kevorkian and Euthanasia
December 13, 1996 (age 18) PROVED
ESSAYS AND OTHER WRITINGS (NOT LYRICS)
Tom's typewritten college argument paper DOCTOR KEVORKIAN AND EUTHANASIA (December 13, 1996), arguing that assisted suicide should be decriminalized, six coffee-stained pages with references.
the card says: made at age 18
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MEMORABILIA FROM THIS STORY
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What the words mean: PROVED a date or a dated book proves it. BEST GUESS our best reading, not yet proved. TOM SAID Tom's own word. LIKELY strong clues, not yet proved. NOT PROVED an estimate from the pieces around it. NOT SURE the sources disagree. No word: the card gives none yet. "About 1996-2002" means somewhere in those years; the piece is shown once, in the middle year.