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Dear Reader,
"Why is it there? What does it do? How does it work?"
When I was a kid nobody had to orientate me to who, what, where, when, why, and how. Those questions came built-in. I found the answers intriguing, but my parents, on the other hand, wished I'd just be quiet.
"I don't know, Suzanne."
Hmm, it was a mystery. And when my parents couldn't tell me the answer, it made me even more determined to find out.
Most of the time when you do something wrong, you know it's wrong when you're doing it. Tommy Bowden and I on the other hand, were innocent of "knowing." And that's why the two of us stripped the bark off our neighbor's old oak tree, because nobody could tell us what was underneath. Innocent and guilty at the same time. Unfortunately guilty trumped innocent in the eyes of our parents.
It looked like a neighborhood pow-wow. Everyone was huddled around the oak tree, including my parents and Tommy's mom and dad. Wow, something must have happened. So Tommy and I went to investigate. And when my mother asked, "Do you know who did this?"
Out of the mouths of "innocent" babes came, "Oh we did that!"
And again my mother wished I'd just be quiet.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
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