Off The Hook
September 16, 2016

You’ve come a long way baby!

By Melanie Behrens

As I grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s, the world was a totally different place. It was proper, it was conservative and it was safe for children to play outside alone. In fact, we could be gone all day and maybe just show up for lunch and back out again.
We would never let our children be that far out ...

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