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Jack White

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

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Jack White is pointing out that his mother was much older than the typical parent of a high school student because she had him at 45. As a result, when he was a teenager, his parents were as old as the grandparents of his classmates.

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