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hunter

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10. To be honest, feral childhood didn't end well for many kids.

Reply to dumbcat (Reply #9)

Sat Dec 26, 2015, 04:13 PM

Dec 2015

As a teen I knew kids who were doing drugs in the park or having sex with random strangers at the truck stop.

Most everyone I knew as a kid who went down those paths is dead, mostly of HIV, and a mess of other things, chronic drug and alcohol abuse, suicide, violence...

Had they been children of the 'fifties they might still be with us.

Antibiotics cured other STD's and the other viruses were not so deadly, except for the few that sometimes transform into cancers later, HPV, etc..

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To be honest, feral childhood didn't end well for many kids. hunter Dec 2015 #10