At 8 years old?
I think they're about the same age as I am. As I mentioned earlier, I was doing that sort of thing when I was 6, as were my friends. I'd often be out for most of the day without an adult in sight. In some ways, that was the point. It was our world.
It was normal in those days. Parents hadn't been conditioned to think there was a stranger who murders children hiding behind every other car or tree. Children tended to grow up faster in some ways in the past. Yes, I do mean that. This image of children in the past that everyone is so strongly conditioned to believe nowadays, an image in which people remained children until about 18, is not really true.
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