Without stating the year, I'll just say it was a long long time ago! I was 7 years of age when these pictures were taken!
Please note how skinny my legs were. Yes, I was that scrawny as a kid! You will notice how tanned I was. We lived a mere two blocks from the neighborhood park and swimming pool. Until I was 6, I often begged to go swimming in the pool, but was not taken. Finally, I took a dime out of my piggy bank, and went swimming. My parents had the cops out looking for me, because I had simply disappeared. When they finally found me frolicking at the pool, my mother didn't know whether to hug or kill me!
However, the next morning she took me shopping for my very first swim suit, so I wouldn't need to go swimming in a pair of shorts and a blouse, like the previous day. And afterwards, there were always plenty of dimes to go swimming on days in summer!
When I look back at how safe our neighborhood was back then, I could almost cry that children today don't have that same freedom, because we fear so for their safety. When I look at the pictures above, and remember those innocent times, I wonder, what happened to Merica!
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