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I grew up in Ohio in the 70s,

me and my childhood friend Joe were outside all the time we could manage it.

Joe lived in a farm that boarded a pretty big forest,

and my parents would drop me off in the morning and we'd stay in the woods all weekend.

We'd only come out for school.

We loved pretending we were frontiersmen.

We built shelters, traps, practice making fire with sticks the whole nine yards.

When we got to be in high school, we got this notion, Nipola, stand by me.

This was based on the movie of the same name that had just come out.

The idea was that we'd walk the railroad tracks out into the country,

but instead of looking for a body, we'd find cool bridges to fish from,

and a camp of little ways off the tracks.

Of course we knew this was dangerous and we'd likely be trespassing, but we were kids.

We had a lot of fun.

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