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HOW DID WE LIVE
THROUGH IT?
Looking back, it's hard to believe that we have
lived as long as we have.
As children we would ride in cars with no
seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a
warm day was always a special treat.
Our baby cribs
were painted with bright colored lead based paint. We often
chewed on the crib, ingesting the paint. We had no childproof lids
on medicine bottles, doors, or cabinets, and when we rode our bikes we had
no helmets. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a
bottle. 
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
streetlights came on. No one was able to reach us all
day. We played dodge ball and sometimes the ball would really
hurt. 
We ate cupcakes,
bread and butter, and drank sugar soda, but we were never overweight; we
were always outside playing.
Little League
had tryouts, and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to
learn to deal with disappointment. Some students weren't as
smart as others or didn't work hard so they failed a grade and were held
back to repeat the same grade.
That generation
produced some of the greatest risk-takers and problem solvers.
We had the freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
how to deal with it all.
-Author
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