re: Stand by Me (spoilers)

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I guess my remarks were more aimed at the older boys now that I think about it. Just 100% total delinquents without an ounce of human kindness.

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My older cousins were like that when I was eight.
They drank anything they could get their hands on, including spiking canned cokes with Dr. Tichners. They took money my grandfather gave them for haircuts and bought liqour and cigerettes with it. One time they camped out in our backyard and woke up the whole neighborhood fighting after one of them peeed in the other one's canteen.
These guys, like some of the younger and older kids in the movie had little adult supervision. Their dad left when they were little and they were too much for their mom and even my grandfather to handle. Even though they grew up in 1950-1960's small town Louisiana,they did not have an idealic upbringing.