A lot of the time when I think back to my childhood I remember all the good times I had. I played sports, played tag, made silly nicknames for my teachers. I remember all of that but I never recall the things like Colin talks about in American Male at age 10.
The paragraph that caught my eye is the one where the kids are engaged in different conversations that typical adults partake in. They discuss rather or not Michael Jordan has AIDS,where to dump garbage, even abortion. It's fascinating to hear this because, just like I said, I don't remember talking about anything of this as a kid. This came to me as a jolt, like the author said. This paragraph really opened my mind to the idea that kids can be a lot more mature then they are given credit for.And of course it makes me think about what I had my mind wrapped around when I was young.
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