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Mar 15, 2006 22:15

"inside me, my boyhood feels so close, but when i look around, it sometimes seems to belong to a vanished world. in the united states in the late 1990s, is it really possible to imagine whole families, boys and girls of eight to eighteen at their parents' sides in the cotton fields, working through the july heat from dawn to dusk, driving away exhaustion with songs of the spirit? are there still places where a young boy can leave his house after breakfast with just a fishing pole and spend the whole day rambling and adventuring alone, unsupervised and unafraid, trusted and unfeared for?

perhaps there are. i hope so. but i suspect otherwise. i think that even if such places do exist, our televisions have blinded us to them."

-johnny cash.
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