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28. My mother always said don't go in the bay water

Fri Sep 23, 2022, 10:58 PM

Sep 2022

About 15 minutes away by bike. So at 12 yrs old we rented a rowboat and drifted away. Luckily a boat saw us and pulled us back to shore. My mom always also said don’t play in the woods or on the RR tracks so that’s where we played. There was a brown bag sitting on one of the rails and we thought it might be kittens so we ran to save them but the bag was filled with feces. Those were the days with zero supervision.

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