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I grew up playing street hockey and tackle football with the neighbourhood boys. There was only one other girl on the street, and she was too much of a girly girl, who wasn't allowed to do anything but shop anyway. I had a paper route at 10. Can you imagine sending a 10 year old girl to people's doors nowadays to collect $1.10 every week? We climbed apple trees till we were so high that we were scared to come down, I made Chris Gorton eat yellow snow, and regularly broke windows playing baseball in the old lady's yard down the street. When she asked us to repair and paint her fence one summer, we were all happy to oblige, and no, we didn't ask for money. I know far too much about how houses are built, because the new subdivisions going up were our playgrounds- they were awesome to play hide & seek in. Now they are gated, with security guards worried about people burning them down.
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