When I was sixteen, I got my first car. It was a 1961 Ford Falcon Station Wagon. It cost me all of $50. I was mobile and I didn't care that is was not new or sporty. I thought it would make me cool. Now we are talking about the late 60's. Things were very turbulent but that is not what I was thinking about. We lived in Southern California and we go to the beach on the weekends and on holidays. My sister and I would go to the beach and along the way pick up hitchhikers. Can you imagine? Boys and girls with their beach paraphernalia and surfboards sticking out the back of my station wagon, we were cool. That was then but today we wouldn't do that. We would think about mass murders, rapists and kidnappers. Were we dumb then, I don't think so. We didn't have to worry about it as much as we do now. Or we just didn't think about it.
We didn't think that we could get in trouble, but we did. We would go to parties without our parents knowing about it. We thought we were smart because we......
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