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[quote=Anonymous]When I was a kid everyone was outside all day playing, and any of the parents would correct you or step in as needed; it didn't have to be your own.  And everybody's parents knew each other.  There was an older retired couple across the street, and my much younger brother spent his days over there in the summer or after school during the school year.  Our parents divorced  and our mother worked 2 jobs. My brother would help the husband out in his garden, and the wife would make him cream of wheat just like he liked it, with a thick layer of cream on top.  And she always had his favorite candies in her candy jar, those hard butterscotch candies.  Usually, they fed him dinner, and when my mother's car pulled up they would just send him back home. There was no exchange of money, there was no babysitting agreement, folks in the neighborhood just took care of each other.  Much later, when the older couple were in their late 80s and the husband was dying of cancer my mother pretty much stayed at their house and took care of them. She cooked, cleaned, and sat with them. The wife has long passed away too, but whenever we visited our home town we would also stop and visit with her.  She lived until 93. It was a really great way to grow up.[/quote]

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