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In reply to the discussion: I'm Afraid My Neighbors Will Call Cops if My Kids Walk Alone [View all]3Hotdogs
(12,393 posts)18. I grew up in Millburn, N.J. I lived across the street from the Papermill Playhouse.
It's call Papermill because it was mill, on the banks of a stream.
I was about 3 or 4 and we lived across the street from the stream. I know I wasn't yet 5, because we moved from there when I was five.
Anyways, I recall several of us kids, including my future class mate, Theresa, playing in the stream, supervised by whatever other kids were in the brook with us.
And guess what happened? Nothing.
When we moved to a different part of town, there were about 10 of us. We were alll "feral." Baseball in the streets, walking in the woods by ourselves.
And guess what happened? Nothing. Now my kids say I'm a bit addled... but I don't think it was because of king left alone to grow up.
I am now, 80 years old.
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I grew up in a small town. When I got my bike in jr. high I was just about anywhere in town.
Thomas Hurt
Sep 2022
#2
What my sister & I got by with in a relatively small town when growing up is light years away from
hlthe2b
Sep 2022
#9
I grew up in Millburn, N.J. I lived across the street from the Papermill Playhouse.
3Hotdogs
Sep 2022
#18
The only thing I would say is this. I was 7 and my sister was 5 we walked to school in a
Demsrule86
Sep 2022
#19