Do You Remember?

The town we grew up in was an interesting little place. It wasn't your classic quaint small town, in fact it wasn't even that small, and was far from quaint, but it was our home.

Our neighborhood was a little way out from the town center and away from the other residential areas, that’s probably part of the reason we were all so close growing up. I loved our neighborhood, Shadows View, but despite the slightly dreary name it was a bright and happy place for a child to grow up in.

It consisted of 16 slightly run down but decent houses that ran around the main sub-division. There was only one entrance and exist into the neighborhood, which may have kept burglars away, but got us in trouble when we got older.

There were 15 of us in total, kind of split into two groups- the older kids and the younger kids. I was part of the older group and through my childhood the seven of us we best friends, always playing and exploring together, but as we got older things changed. I still remember everything we went through together, the good and the bad. How bitter-sweet life was then, now looking back.

Anyways, I am getting a little ahead of myself aren't I?

Let me start from the beginning....