| We ate cupcakes, bread and butter, and drank soda pop with
sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were
always outside playing. We shared one soft drink with four
friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from
this.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps
and then rode down the hill, only to find out we forgot the
brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we
learned to solve the problem. We would leave home in the
morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the
street lights came on. No one was able to reach us all
day. No cell phones. Unthinkable!
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, no
video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, video tape
movies, surround sound, personal cell phones, personal
computers, or Internet chat rooms. We had friends! We
went outside and found them.
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