” I went fishing with a cane pole. Rode a Western Flyer bike. Wore out at least half a dozen B.B. guns and a couple of dogs.”
I grew up in the city in the 30s and 40s-——I would not have considered your growing up normal-————times change.
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Reckon so but I’d bet you could go to the corner store alone back the without an armed escort. Times have truely changed.