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One little girl, we'll call her Amy, thought that she was old enough to walk to school on her own. I guess she didn't want mom crimping her style. After all, a kids got a reputation to keep.
Her mother, we'll call her Julie, disagreed. At the tender age of 5, she thought that her daughter was much too young to be walking to school by herself. The school was several miles away and crossed several busy streets to get there. Mother and daughter got into a spirited argument over the subject.
Amy, being the strong-willed child that she is, hatched a plan to show her mother just how wrong she was. So the next morning, she got up early, snuck out of the house, and set out before first light to walk to school. As it turns out, her mother may have been right after all. That's because she got lost somewhere along the way. So she decided to use a trick she says she learned from her old home in Arizona to get where she needed to be: Hitchhiking. She would later explain how people in her hometown would use that same trick when they needed rides.
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