Remember summers as a kid? Staying out until the street lights came on. Do you remember what you were doing at the time? I have visions of playing games like IT tag or kick ball. There were wagon rides down steep sidewalks. Homemade stilts my best friend's father made. Tree houses and cherry popsicles. And on rainy afternoons there was always Monopoly and popcorn. We had fun. We knew how to play.
Something happens to us as we cross over into adulthood. The stress and...
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