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03-06-09, 10:04 PM
D,
I was a girl scout too and back in the late seventies when I was five years old, my folks put my siblings and I on the bus to South Carolina by ourselves. We were going down to spend time with relatives.
Today, that would be unthinkable.
Kunjufu,
Sometimes I think like 1988, something happened in the world and the Devil came out of hiding. Because seriously, back when we were kids, we played outside, we had sleepovers, we could be anywhere in the city, just as long as we made it home before the streetlights came on.
I used to walk to school when I was 6 years old by myself, or take the bus and nobody was worried about me. My folks just gave me a token and lunch money and it was a wrap.
Now you can't even let your kids out into your own backyard.
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