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My First Child is Off to Summer Camp (and I Never Got to Go)

by Rachel Campos-Duffy, Posted Jun 30th 2010 11:00AM

I never went to summer camp. In fifth grade, Girl Scout camp presented me with my first opportunity, but my Spanish-born mom who was unfamiliar with and somewhat suspicious of this all-American summer tradition, surmised it was an unnecessary ...

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