Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?
Where I grew up, Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice rented fields near our home to grow cranberries. During the winter they would flood these fields of cranberries, known to the natives as cranberry bogs, in order to preserve them. This became our frozen park and we would skate out onto this frozen frontier til we couldn’t because of either cold or hunger. Some of the ice paths led one into secluded tranquil areas of the bogs. I loved it. I have skates in the back of my car during the winter so I am able to skate if and when I drive by an outdoor skating spot.
But I miss the bogs!
Janiele Allman Children's Story Writer 
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