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From: gdvsmit@watrose.UUCP (Riel Smit)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Barefootedness
Message-ID: <7747@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 09:22:17 EST
Article-I.D.: watrose.7747
Posted: Thu Jan  9 09:22:17 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jan-86 00:43:18 EST
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: Bare feet is great

I grew up barefooted.  Until the age of about 14 I wore shoes once a week
for 1.5 hours (when we went to church).  The shoes were the last to go on
and the first to go off - almost on the steps of the church, and we would
run home, shoes, socks, tie and jacket in hand.  Still don't like any of
those four pieces of clothing!

Our feet (the girls' included) were tough.  We went mountain climbing and
hiking through the bush with bare feet.  Oh sure, sometimes you got thorns
in them, or they got cut by the grass (that is grass that grow to a height
of about 7 feet), or you'd loose a nail or two when you bumped your toes
real hard against a rock while running down the mountain side, but there's
nothing that a few drops of T.B.Co (Fryer's Balsam ?) would not cure (the
medicine hurt more than the original injury!).

I still go barefeet as much as possible (if it would not offend the
"civilized" people around me), but it's tough going in Canada in winter!

Riel Smit
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