Scenes We Remember From Our Childhood
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Sassycakes
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- Pennsylvania
Spending Summer vacation in Wildwood NJ.With my parents, Aunts, Uncles, and cousins. They were Wonderful days.
Aunt Bea
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- Near Mount Pilot
Verisure
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Ohhhhh, yes!
Sassycakes
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- Pennsylvania
When I was in school we had to hide under our desks to avoid the atomic bomb. I would rather have hidden under the desk when the Nun was holding her yardstick.
feywon
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- Rural North Central NM
One of my fondest memories is of standing in an Aunty's backyard with my slightly younger cousin Dennis as it got dark and the fireflies came out.
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Ruth n Jersey
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- Northern New Jersey
My family sitting around the fire my grandpa built most every night during the summer. He would gather just enough wood to last about an hour before we headed back to the house to get ready for bed.
Verisure
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Yes, indeed! I remember practicing "duck and cover". The alarm would go off and everyone had to drop to the floor. I don't know what year your photo depicts but I was born in 1947 and although we didn't use ink our desks were thicker, the lid lifted up to access your books and paraphernalia within and they still had an ink well in the top. I also went to Catholic school (till they kicked me out 3 years later) and besides the nuns raping your hands with a ruler there were also the brothers who would smack you on the top of your head with their ring turned down towards the palm of their hand.
fuzzybuddy
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- The Sticks, Northeast PA.
Believe me, I went to Catholic school. If it were a choice between nuclear annihilation, or a nun with a yard stick, I'd take the lesser evil-the atom bomb.
Time Waits 4 No Man
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- At The Edge Of Time
Where I lived as a child, we always called them "lightning bugs". It wasn't until years later that I first heard the term, "firefly":
Paco Dennis
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- Mid-Missouri
Aneeda72
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I remember doing this in public school.
CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
I saw that growing up.... and here's more camping 'fun'... look real enthusiastic, don't we? lol
Verisure
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You don't want to know how heartless and brutal Mother Terese was but if you do want to know just look it up. I guess she thought that if your life was miserable it was your own fault and you should suffer to your last breath believing that suffering was the only way that God would forgive you for your sins.
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peppermint
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- East Coast Yes
I still like the lightning bugs.....They were not fireflies....in our part of New Jersey...Where I lived as a child, we always called them "lightning bugs". It wasn't until years later that I first heard the term, "firefly":
Verisure
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There are two fundamental types: Those that "light" independently and those that "light" in unison.
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Verisure
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Yeah! Singed or burnt?
burnt
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hollydolly
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- London England
errm...I think they kept people's heads warm...