Kick the can

John Draper
Nov 4 · 9 min read

Long before the days of 24-hour cartoons and 24-hour porn, children actually played outdoors, porn-less. During daylight hours, one’s best bet was The Woods. Every neighborhood had it. You could do anything in The Woods. Anything — clothed or naked. Build a fort from lumber you stole from local construction sites. Cruise the seedy part of the galaxy in your speeder, looking for a score — from the crook of a tree! Your speeder would rumble, barely containing its…

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