Simon Dillon
Dec 6, 2022

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I did this a great deal as a child (as well as in the surrounding countryside, as we weren't in a city). These days, parents are so much more mollycoddling. We let ours play out and about, but so many of their friends weren't allowed to do the same. They're now 18 and 14, so survived the hoard of paedophiles supposedly lurking in the woods where they built dens and so forth, but we kept them off the internet for as long as humanly possible, and both have utterly rejected social media, so perhaps as parents we did something right amid our recklessness.

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

Written by Simon Dillon

Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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