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Originally Posted by FireFly
I don't believe that. As per my previous post, (sorry I didn't read everything before replying,) in the 50s, your entire neighbourhood knew who you were and what you were doing and cared enough to rat you out when you needed to be ratted on.
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I don't agree with that. People may have known, but I don't think it was "polite" to say or do anything about it. I think there was far less "ratting" since it was viewed as private business.
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