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75. I grew up RURAL...My early "catching the Bus Days" had "Dead Possums"

Tue Apr 23, 2013, 09:47 PM

Apr 2013

with flies eating eyes out...worms...and disgusting stuff always at my bus stop under the GRAND OAKS spreading Branches in Southern USA. As a little kid...it grossed me out...and then there were the abandoned dogs...who feasted on the leavings of the dead Possums...and then there was the kid who found a dead female Possum who placed her dead babies in our rural Mail Box...that I found when I got the mail home from bus stop. I didn't know what to do...I turned my back and left them. My Dad..I think cleaned it out and the babies probably got killed for their "own survival" in his mind. I can't place judgement on his decision...whatever he did with that. It was in his mind to do what he had to do in that situation.

Yes...Life goes on...but, SOME STUFF...never leaves you...and sort of turns you in life to looking for better. Not the KILLING...but, that some stuff gets into the "soul" of some of us that makes us always want to care for the suffering.

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