• ancap shark@lemmy.today
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    3 months ago

    Even when I was a child, I always thought that the place they live looks fantastic. Nice woods next to the house, chill neighborhood, the kid can roam free to play around. As a child I never understood why Calvin was so annoyed by everything while living such a dream

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      3 months ago

      I usually assumed the “larger than life” giant hills and huge woods were part of the way Calvin looked at the world, rather than the way his parents saw it. After all, he saw his dad as working in a high-rise office, which would be out of place this close to a home like this

      Just the same, it was clearly a great place for an imaginative outdoorsy kid to live.

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      3 months ago

      I grew up in the wooded countryside. My backyard looked just like Calvin’s backyard, so I related to Calvin’s childhood a ton.

      I just wished I also lived in a neighborhood where I could walk down a sidewalk and have friends to visit, as Calvin visits/runs into Susie all the time. I had to beg my parents to drive me into town if I wanted to hang with friends.