It's a Bain Thang / 'The Pull of the Ocean' by Sarah Bain
A Sarah Bain thang:Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women - Columns - 'The Pull of the Ocean' by Sarah Bain: "For my friends and me, the '70s was a time of freedom that is no longer found on the sandy beaches of California. Our mothers went back to work because they were trying to recapture what they thought had been taken from them, and children, for the most part, were left on their own. The term 'latchkey kid' hadn't been coined yet, and being on your own wasn't necessarily bad."Anymore, of course, you just get your kid one of those teeny tiny mini-bikes and let them roam wherever they want, right? Right.
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