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QJM 2006 99(7):495-496; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcl077
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Coda

A hitch-hiker's guide to the past

John Launer

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We all romanticize the past. But in some ways at least, I’m certain that life is less safe and spontaneous for my two young children nowadays than it was for me. When I was their age (there, I’ve said it!) I used to disappear with friends for hours to the local park, kicking a ball around, fishing for sticklebacks in the stream, and playing hide and seek in the bushes. I would never dream of letting my own children do this unaccompanied. Nor do I ever see kids under ten roaming freely around north London . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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