I remember my afternoons in childhood vividly. The days felt like taffy as the sun stretched itself slowly into bedtime. I’d often spend the afternoons laying on the deck in my backyard, listening to the radio, daydreaming, or imagining some fabled world inside our treehouse, while my mother cooked dinner for the family. I’m lucky to be a part of what seems to be the last generation to have experienced boredom throughout childhood. Over the course of two decades, childhood ha

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