Thank you to David Rhodes for posting the spam on "People Over 35 should be Dead." What a terrific article! I have a couple more things to add: we kids learned to take care of our own pets with scraps from the table and whatever else we could find, and the pets were fine; some of us had to learn to head home by sunset, since there were no street lights; we kids actually had to do what our teachers told us to do, leaving a lot of time to learn the 3 R's.
Marcy