Raised by the Rainforest
I didn't realize I was raised differently than most kids until I left Alaska and discovered that not every child grows up knowing what to do when there's a bear on the front porch.
I was raised on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska, surrounded by the Tongass National Rainforest, the Pacific Ocean and enough wildlife to make a Lower 48 kid reconsider going outside. Looking back, I'm realizing that some of the things I considered perfectly normal were, in fact, completely unhinged.
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