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Jan 04, 2011, 02:50 PM
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Member Since: Jun 2007
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Posts: 5,518
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We used to take our son out to the woods to hike with us when he was little. We were following a deer path one day when we came upon an open area with a picnic table. It was a good place to rest, so we sat at the picnic table and looked at the beauty all around us as he played around the picnic table.
We heard him ask "What's that?" He was pointing to the ground - the entire area was covered in used condoms!  It wasn't an appropriate time to teach him about the "birds and bees" or the need for "safe sex." We told him it was just someone else's garbage - hardly a treasure. We pretended they were landmines, and made it out safely.  My husband and I had been so busy focusing on the beauty off in the distance,  We should have been paying closer attention to the "beauty" below our feet! 
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