Rode our bikes without helmets, rode in the car with no seatbelts, rode in the back of pickups, sat on dad’s lap while he was driving the car, played all day with no supervision and no fear of getting snatched, solved our relational problems on our own (sometimes w/ fists), “sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will never hurt me” was our mantra, sucked it up if we got physically hurt, had a huge sense of “fairness”…