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A Place of Our Own

‭ ‬Many memories of a‭ вЂ¬Ð²Ð‚?special placeвЂ­Ð²Ð‚™Ð²Ð‚¬ or a physical refuge of the imagination are conceived‭

in a personвЂ­Ð²Ð‚™Ð²Ð‚¬s childhood.‭ ‬We,‭ ‬as children,‭ ‬seek this refuge because we are not given the simplistic freedoms that are overlooked as we age,‭ ‬for example,‭ ‬at my current age of eighteen,‭ ‬I am able to get in my car,‭ ‬call some friends and escape the stress,‭ ‬and burden of‭ ‬reality for a night without a momentвЂ­Ð²Ð‚™Ð²Ð‚¬s pause.‭ ‬However,‭ ‬as children we cannot all do this and therefore many of us find small plots in our local area and claim them as our own.‭ ‬These plots could range from a variety of places,‭ ‬such as a clearing in the woods,‭ ‬or a desolate lot‭; ‬regardless,‭ ‬these areas that our childhoodвЂ­Ð²Ð‚™Ð²Ð‚¬s claimed as their‭ вЂ¬Ð²Ð‚?spotвЂ­Ð²Ð‚™Ð²Ð‚¬ were overlooked by the general population,‭ ‬and held no special meaning to anyone else.‭ ‬Having lived in various locations throughout my life I have attained a number of places that hold a special meaning to me,‭ ‬but the most memorable was in Avella,‭ ‬Pennsylvania.

‭ ‬I was just entering seventh grade at Avella High School,‭ ‬as the‭ '‬New Kid‭'‬,‭ ‬all I could hope for was to have a group of people accept me as their friend.‭ ‬Little did I know that those people were:‭ ‬Chris Stokum,‭ ‬Greg Slaney,‭ ‬and Daniel Amaismeir,‭ ‬nor did I know that with these three people would come a sense of stability and the best memories of my life.‭ ‬The four of us all lived within the general vicinity of‭ ‬each other and being without the convenience of a vehicle,‭ ‬or being of legal age to operate one anyways,‭ ‬we reverted to the most renowned form of seventh grade transportation,‭ ‬bicycles.‭ ‬We rode our bikes almost every day the weather permitted,‭ ‬and it was‭ ‬on one of these trips that we found what was to be dubbled,‭ '‬Camp Ramrod‭'‬.‭ ‬The odd name was inspired by a quote from the movie‭ "‬Super Troopers‭"‬,‭ ‬in which we had all recently seen together and found rather hysterical.

Camp Ramrod started as just a place for Chris,‭ ‬to stash the helmet his father made him wear,‭ ‬until he could retrieve it before returning home,‭ ‬and the site soon turned into a destination point for all our rides.‭ ‬Camp Ramrod‭ ‬was off of Atlasburg road,‭ ‬closest to ChrisвЂ­Ð²Ð‚™Ð²Ð‚¬ house,‭ ‬and owned by someone whose name is unknown to me to this day.‭ ‬The site was on top of a hill in a clearing of forest with a rather pathetic excuse of a stream winding through the middle of it all.‭ ‬A solitary tree proved as the basis of the‭ вЂ¬Ð²Ð‚?campвЂ­Ð²Ð‚™Ð²Ð‚¬ and would be the site where many experiences of my life took place.

A year later Greg and I were handed a pack of cigarettes from another kid attending our school in exchange

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