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To: Blurb2350

Cool! Which story is that?

Those old days when girls sat underneath chinaberry trees playing with baby dolls I fear are long gone. Or almost gone.

I was outside for hours nearly every day. When I wasn’t playing with dolls, I was tagging along behind my older brothers, walking through the woods and seeing what marvelous things we could find. I loved our adventures.


201 posted on 01/10/2026 8:22:53 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: FamiliarFace

Ha...you made me remember...playing in mud puddles with my brother...we lived south of Seattle


202 posted on 01/10/2026 8:42:10 AM PST by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: FamiliarFace

It’s near the beginning of “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” The family is traveling by car and when they stop to eat there’s a chained pet monkey in a chinaberry tree picking its fleas and eating them. The monkey scrambles to the highest branch when the kids run toward it screaming with delight. There’s also a cat named Pitty Sing that the grandmother has smuggled in a picnic basket against her son’s wishes.


205 posted on 01/10/2026 9:03:52 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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