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I had a pretty good childhood. Parents never struggled with bills or anything, my mom has been a stay at home mom forever and I thank her for that every time I see her. The only time I can think of them having financial issues was when dad was layed off in the 80's (engineer for the oil patch), but I was just a wee baby then.
Dad only hit me once and I deserved it, and I am glad that he did it, although it took me about 5 years to figure that out. I had been picking on my little brother and hurt him really bad, so my dad asked me how I would like it if someone who I had absolutely no chance of fighting off picked on me, I said something smart assed and he just lost it, wound up and punched me in the chest so hard I went flying (I was probably 13). He felt really bad after he did it, in fact I should tell him now that I am glad he did it, because I stopped picking on my brother.
Growing up I was tiny, I was always the smallest kid I knew. In fact I never started really growing until I was about 16 or so. I hit puberty the same time as everyone, but just never grew really fast. Today I am 6'0 tall but never hit that until I was probably 19. My bloody feet even grew a few years back and I had to buy all new shoes!
I also did not have cable or any video game consoles growing up, we eventually got NES when SNES came out though... but thats it. And no tropical vacations, the first time I have been anywhere tropical or far away was last christmas I went to Cuba with some friends.
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