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This is such good advice. I have noticed how negative attitudes have become over the years. Fear rules. I think fear sells newspapers and news channels can charge more for advertising if they promote all the bad stuff to the top of their pile of 'whats happening' and the good stuff just gets lost. As a kid I walked to school. Now parents are considered negligent if they allow their kids to do that. Apparently, there are now pedophiles and sexual predators lurking on every corner.
We had people snatching kids near our kids' school...
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