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To: Ilaine who wrote (109233)	4/14/2005 6:31:47 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793912

There are some things we don't know that boys would do, so we can't warn them not to do whatever it is....for instance, one of ours when he was about 8 or so, was walking on a picket fence, just to see if he could do it evidently. He was able to do it for a bit. (I didn't see it or probably would have had a heart attack>..) BUT, all of a sudden, he fell....had a HUGE hole in the back of his thigh, and off we went to the Hospital Emergency. Simply never occurred to me to tell the boys not to do that. Nor did it occur to me to tell them not to try to catch the salmon in a small stream that were coming up the stream to spawn. They were trying to catch the fish with their hands to see if they could....some one of the neighbors saw that and called the local sheriff....The sheriff came down the hill, and as my son tells it, "All of a sudden there were BIG boots right by me. I looked up ....all the way to the top of his hat....he looked really mad. I got up and ran as fast as I could....the other boys had already run back up the hill." I didn't know what had really happened that day until years later. All I knew that day is that all of a sudden, son(same son about age 6) ran into the house and into his room. He stayed on his bed the rest of the day. Read a book. Took a nap. I thought he was sick, or not feeling well. Kids. And especially boys. !!! Most girls don't even think of those possibilities....