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What do you miss from your childhood?
(Besides not paying bills)

I miss where I grew up, family and friends.

Sirena 7 Aug 16
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Naivety. Not having to fear going on a twenty mile bike trip and sharing a cantaloupe with a friend from a farmer's stand. Simply less people in my youth; most likely the same percentage of dangerous and good, trustible people as today, just not as many to cross paths with.

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Not worrying about the ills and problems of the world. Being pretty much carefree was so nice.

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Being able to disappear from the house into the woods less than 50 yards behind the house where I could be alone, skip rocks across the pond, and sit listening to the old water wheel at our mill house creaking as it turned and turned while doing nothing. I miss scrambling across the beaver dam on the creak that backed up a fair sized lake upstream. I miss getting on my bike and riding for a couple of hours to get to the Silver Falls Park wilderness. Other that that, not much.

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I miss all the things that were around. The cereals, the TV shows/cartoons, the fact that we actually had to go to our friends to see what was going on, more playing outside. Those were some pretty good days.

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I grew up in a very rural area - no parish (not county - I grew up in Louisiana) library branch. I sooo looked forward to the thrill of going to the bookmobile every two weeks in the summer. The bookmobile was a mobile library that had regular route, with 20 minutes or so stops throughout the parish. I was a small in stature, bookish, sickly boy, but the bookmobile ladies would just bring me books they found on interlibrary loan that they knew I was interested in. SciFi, aviation, space, etc. I LOVED It.

On a side note, my grandfather passed away a few years back. At his funeral, one of those bookmobile ladies was there. I didn't recognize her, but she knew me and told me who she was. I got the chance to tell how very thankful I was for them bringing me a pile of books every two weeks. They truly broadened my horizons and help me see that there was a much bigger world outside of my tiny little home town....

Ohub Level 7 Aug 16, 2018
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I miss my mum.

Livia Level 6 Aug 16, 2018

I miss my dad... I was little when he passed. Don't remember too much. I'm sorry you lost your mom ?

@Sirena My dad died when I was 3. I still occasionally grieve not knowing him.

@thislife I was 7, but he was in jail until I was 4...So I didn't get him for long. I have pictures and stories.

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I miss my uncle, grandmother and daddy.

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my grandma

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My Grandmother.

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Snuggling up with my dad while he read me the Sunday comics, using all the cartoon voices. Well, he read some; but mostly he improvised. When I learned to read, I was disappointed to learn that comics were actually quite short.

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This is difficult. I didn't really have a happy childhood. I do miss leaving the house in the morning, and hiking out to the woods, and exploring, all alone. It was extremely quiet and peaceful. I also went out in the fields after they were plowed and hunted arrow heads. Mushroom hunting in the spring. I miss being thin and agile. I can still do those things now that I live on the farm, but a lot slower, and more achey.

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Naivety. Not having to fear going on a twenty mile bike trip and sharing a cantaloupe with a friend from a farmer's stand. Simply less people in my youth; most likely the same percentage of dangerous and good, trustible people as today, just not as many to cross paths with.

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Being oblivious to what was happening in the world around me. Crime, hunger, genocide, corruption, rape, slavery...the list goes on.

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Youth...

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I miss diving into water to swim and play, no matter how cold out it was or the water temperature.

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Living in Australia. The smell of a eucalyptus on a hot day. Swimming in the ocean.

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Carefree days, endless summers, less traffic, innocence, and wonderful Edinburgh as a backdrop!

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I miss the feeling of "anything was possible" or more honestly, the absentmindedness of just how hard the world can really be.

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Papa and uncle shorty

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Not liking girls. Life was sooo much simpler then

I'll drink to that

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I miss perfectly platonic displays of affection being observed as perfectly platonic.

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I miss that my family would get together every couple months.

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The friends that I grew up with.

Etre Level 7 Aug 17, 2018
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I feel so fortunate to have grown in the 50's&60's. It was a totally different world. And of course being young was fantastic. I kinda feel sorry for millianals and generation X. They really got born in the wrong era.I feel that somehow people were happier!

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Nothing. My father was a monster. I was on edge every day of my life, nervous, scared.

I'm very sorry ?

@Sirena Thank you, but don't be. Amor Fati.

@Mitch07102 I had plenty of monsters in my childhood... I just didn't have a father after I turned 7.

@Sirena Glad you made it.

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In the back yard of my youth there was a gliding swing inside a grape arbor. I could swing back and forth surrounded by giant bunches of golf ball sized purple grapes. And woven through the Bush was a honeysuckle vine that smelled incredible.

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