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Your theory would be wrong.  I just know that you have to be aware of your surroundings.  Like it or not, a girl walking alone in a crowded airport is not going to be vulnerable in the same way as a girl walking down a quiet street, alone, on a rainy day.  [/quote]

How and when did you learn that you have to be aware of your surroundings?[/quote]

It was a combination of things. I was a kid when the Lyon sisters disappeared so my parents had talked to me at length about stranger danger.  It really made an impression on me.  My parents told me that if someone tried to get me to go with them that I should run and scream, kick, bite, fight, whatever I had to do to not go with them.  It was a scary talk and it stayed with me.

By the time I was a teenager, I had been walking and riding my bike all over the place. I was aware when guys were checking me out.  My parents expected that I tell them where I was going and who I was with.  If I was going from point A (ex: home) to point B (ex: a friend's house) they expected me to call them when I got there and they knew exactly how long it would take for me to get there.

I became aware that walking home from school on a sunny day there were lots of other kids walking, too.  Rainy days, there were far fewer kids walking home.  And if I was leaving school late, even by as little as 15 minutes late, I was likely to be walking the whole way home alone.  The same exact walk home could vary depending on the weather and the time I left school.

I was used to get cat calls from motorists as I walked.  But having a vehicle slow down and follow me or actually approach me was unusual and scary.  I didn't talk to them, I focused on doing what I had to do to get to a point of safety.

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In other words, you learned by doing. Kids who aren't allowed to do, won't learn.[/quote]

Yes.  My parents also did not shelter me from the disappearance of the Lyon sisters.  They told me in no uncertain terms that there are scary people out there who do scary things.

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