![]() ![]() The ice was just a few inches thick on the ground, so there was no danger of falling through. In winter we went sledding on a not-very-steep hill and skating on ice which the fire department made by flooding an area near the school when the temperature was below freezing. ![]() About the only time we needed to be driven anywhere was Saturday or Sunday afternoon, to go to a movie in a nearby town. We spent a lot of time playing at each other's houses. My friends and I walked or rode our bikes all over town. A few steps from our neatly mowed yard were wild strawberries, milkweed, Queen Anne's lace (wild carrot), and vast numbers of other "weeds" whose names I never knew, all changing with the seasons. This was like living in the city and the country at the same time. ![]() We had fields on both sides, and I walked to school on a well-traveled path that was a shortcut through them. Although our neighborhood was divided into city blocks with paved streets and sidewalks, there were only two houses on our street. I grew up in a very small town, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. ![]()
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