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Sometimes A Good Idea Comes To You When You Are Not Looking For It. Through An Improbable Combination Of Coincidence, Naivete And Lucky Mistakes.

In The 1950s In Columbia, South Carolina, It Was Considered Ok For Kids To Play With Weird Things. We Could Go To The Hardware Store And Buy 100 Feet Of Dynamite Fuse.

Fish Don't Know Much About Water, And People Didn't Know Much About Air.

I've Been Writing About My Boyhood, When I Was A Little Kid Back On My Grandfather's Farm Where We Didn't Know About Black Widow Spiders Or All That Stuff. But Writing About That Is So Easy.

And All I Knew About Drugs Was What I Read In Magazines Like Time And Life. I Learned That Marijuana Was A Dangerous Addictive Drug And That I Should Stay Away From It.