skygazer
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Thu May-01-08 05:37 PM
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Have you ever taken off and nobody even noticed you were gone? |
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Watched "Into the Wild" the other night and one thing that struck me was how his parents were worried about him.
I took off hitchhiking cross-country when I was 17 - on a whim at about 8 one night without mentioning it to anyone - and was gone for 3 weeks. No one ever called the cops, reported me missing, worried about me or seemed to notice too much when I returned.
I did that a few times in my teens and 20's. I never appeared on a milk carton, no one ever had dogs out searching for me, the MSM didn't run round-the-clock stories, my boyfriends weren't arrested and questioned...
It's because I'm not blonde, isn't it? :grr:
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grannylib
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Thu May-01-08 07:13 PM
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1. My folks ALWAYS noticed when I took off hitchin', and they hated it. |
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They never reported me missing, or anything, 'cos they knew where (generally) I was going and I'd call once in a while. But I DID "run away from home" once when I was about 7, I don't remember just what the hell precipitated this little incident, and I packed a little suitcase and put on my raincoat (it was pouring, naturally) and I left and when I came back I was crying and I went to find my mom and hug her because I thought she would be so worried about where I was, and she hadn't noticed I'd gone.
It put a wedge between us that's still there, I think.
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pitohui
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Thu May-01-08 08:46 PM
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2. maybe it is because you are not blonde! |
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Edited on Thu May-01-08 08:46 PM by pitohui
hell i took off just for the weekend and thought it would be okay and come back to find a panicked message from my mom on my cell phone wondering if i am still alive
and i'm a few decades past being 17! plus we don't live in the same city to begin with!
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