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Susan's avatar

Gosh, did this ever bring back some not-so-great childhood memories!! But, I just keep saying to myself, all that helped make me the person I am today, and you know what? I'm not so bad!!

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Emily Burnham's avatar

It often takes a good long while to come to that realization, doesn't it?

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Troy R. Bennett's avatar

I too was sent to a neighbor's house after school because my parents worked. I too was forced to spend hours and hours with another kid my age who I didn't really like. The family lived in a trailer — but they had a pool. I loved that pool.

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James Milton's avatar

There are so many disparities in the socio economic scales in Maine. My parents were the first in their families to get a college education, thanks to the GI bill, but their humble beginnings were never far from us.

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