Sending your kids away to camp

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To Brits it's the stuff Ameican kid movies and books are made of. Fiction.

The original Parent Trap with Haley Mills just came on. I was reminded of this thread (in which I also managed to completely piss off Ms. Monster-sorry!) as I am guessing this is the sort of representation referred to.

Fiction, yeah, but the film resonates for me because it pretty much was what my experience was like. Although very idealized, and 10 years older than when I grew up, I grew up in a ranch house in Northern California and had that same damn blond pixie haircut and went to the same type of camp. I don't remember the lesbians, but they might have been there. (I still think the house is fabulous. And so is Maureen O'Hara.)

We didn't wear those dorky uniforms at camp, though.

We wore them at school.