How to Stop your Son from Stealing
Adventurous Childhood Exploits and Cautionary Adult Tales
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6 min readFeb 6, 2021
It was the sticky part of early summer, a week after seventh grade, when a friend convinced me to shoplift. My decision to enter into a life of crime was based on the day’s events. In the morning, I stood guard outside a bedroom doorway as the delinquent sidekick while my friend misappropriated forty dollars…