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Our farming neighbors across the street are awesome people. Honest, hard working, nature loving, alternative lifestyle vegetarians who raise their kids the old fashioned way… no tv, no cell phones, just plenty of love and imagination. As witnessed by this letter and treasure map they mailed to the two little boys who live down the road.
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Now how fun is that?
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River's world..... 
As an elementary teacher, I can tell you that I wish this were happening a lot, lot more. I have students who almost never play outside. It breaks my heart.
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They’re wonderfully creative, involved patents.
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The world is what you make it. Thank God there are still some people like this!
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They’re special people. I’ll even forgive them for growing and eating kale.
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Shock and awwww… you are now totally off the hook for those bizarre internet advertisements and what not to buy at Goodwill. Well at least for a while.
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I figured I needed to redeem myself with something wonderful.
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This is so awesome! The totally creative, innocently pure wonder of children when they aren’t consumed by electronics and social media immersion. How wonderful!
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Isn’t it just? The innocence of childhood…
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“alternative lifestyle vegetarians who raise their kids the old fashioned way… no tv, no cell phones, just plenty of love and imagination”. Progressive liberals would say they are bad people for cultural appropriation. This is how the Amish live, and have for centuries.
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They are progressive liberals.
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Since when did liberal progressives give up social media devices? I thought that was their lifeblood?
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Not all of them. Mainers are a different brand entirely…
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What was the reward??? This kid wants to know!!!
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I don’t know. Adults aren’t allowed in Fort Sticks.
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The note you received is touching! Love getting those adventure maps, almost forgot what kind of things kids do! Jesh Your blog background looks so roomy, yet, you have 3 columns, which one is it?
Jesh
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As a boy, I would’ve left as soon as I got to the end of the letter.
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That’s really rather wonderful.
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It really is.
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What great parents! There’s still hope for the future with these kinds of parents.
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This.
And that’s all I’ve got…
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That’s all you need.
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I LOVE this. I love people who still embrace the simple pleasures and are passing them along to their kiddos.
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Our neighbors would have been perfectly happy living in the 1800’s.
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