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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> Do you remember when you noticed the effect of playing in the dirt?  When
> did you decide that you were headed back to the land?
I'm not Bev, but I grew up in a rural area. Not on a farm, but we had a 
horse and a large garden. Something that always evokes memories in me is the 
smell of tomato plants after a rain; the tomatoes were usually planted under 
my bedroom window. We lived on a river, and I spent my whole youth swimming, 
fishing, crabbing, and playing in the mud and the forest...back in the days 
when parents didn't 'protect' kids from such things. That peace and freedom 
and slow pace of life was 'normal' to me.

Then I went to college, and lived in the city. It was interesting, but never 
'normal'. After a while I needed the peace and quiet and freedom of living 
in the country again. So here I am.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA