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Clark Rose's avatar

I thought it was mud

And horrors…it was quicksand

Yes! Pay attention…

I was 12 and roaming a construction site with a friend. I decided to take a short cut and jumped into the “muddy” pond. The harder I tried to get out, the more I was slowly being pulled down. My friend found a worker nearby who had rope and pulled me out. To this day I believed he saved my life. Yes, pay attention before jumping.

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Ruth Stroud's avatar

Never ever think about mud, but this awakened a memory. The clay soil in my parents’ backyard made some delicious black mud when you sprayed it with a hose in summer. We kids loved to swish through it with our bare feet, letting the mud dry, then repeating the process. That’s how we made “mud shoes”!

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