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Mum and Gran burst into tears and her Granddad who had been giving me the<br />

stink eye pulled me in for a rib busting hug.<br />

“That went well. I told you they’d love me.” I said smugly when we were alone<br />

in her bedroom.<br />

“You still have to stay in the other room tonight.”<br />

I laughed it off and cuddled up to her until she fell asleep.<br />

<strong>The</strong> next day she took me to a local lake which I imagined was where the local<br />

kids got all Dawson’s Creek. It was nice and even though every place you’ll<br />

ever visit has a special little spot, they all have their own charm. I could also<br />

equate the dangers of this place to the quarry lagoon back in Bradford from my<br />

childhood.<br />

It is almost a certainty that once the local youths started to experiment with each<br />

other’s bodies, they would find a way to drink alcohol. Young sex, drunken<br />

antics and a large body of water don’t mix that well after dark. <strong>The</strong>re would<br />

have been tragic stories, in the UK that would have meant reefs of flowers for<br />

those lost too soon, too tragically. Too stupidly if we are honest but that’s what<br />

being young is, once you survive the stupidity we call it maturity or wisdom.<br />

Surviving being stupid, that is the challenge of youth.<br />

What is the challenge of adulthood? Am still figuring all that out.

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