| Missing mommy My husband and I had been married about a year in the summer of 1974. We loved camping. We decided to take our nieces on a weekend camping trip to the North Carolina mountains. The girls had a younger sister about age 4. Because of a bad experience, she refused to go anywhere without her mother. After counseling, her parents were told that she was just spoiled and should be forced to spend time away from her mother. It was decided that she would go on this trip with us. It was horrible.
She cried the entire weekend. We took them to the “Land
of Oz.” She screamed the whole time. We took them to Tweetsie
Railroad. Same screaming. What’s more, it rained every night.
We woke up each morning lying on the cold, hard, wet ground. Our
air mattresses were flat. One night we left a bag of trash outside
of our tent. A skunk spent the night in the bag. The next morning
we had to wait in the tent until the skunk left. The next time we went camping, we took a pop-up camper and left the girls at home. Connie Fortner |
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