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Old 03-21-2010, 02:43 AM   #10
bluecuracao
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Originally Posted by skysidhe View Post
...safely roaming the neighborhood
I wasn't alive until 6 years after 1960...but I remember doing this--for the most part--throughout the '70s.

There was one instance on my way home from school in 2nd grade, where I had to run into the Dairy Queen to get away from some crazy guy. But other than that, roaming around parent-less was uneventful. It's terrible that kids today don't get to experience that relatively safe freedom--what's happened to the world.
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