I feel the need to clarify that we lived 30 minutes by highway from the nearest tiny town - one of those ubiquitous "towns" that dot the rural landscape which is really just a gas station, a school, and an old folks' home. There was a public library as well which was often my refuge.
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We have that in common then. At the time, I went to school in a different "town" nearby, there was a small grocer across the highway, smaller than your average gas station / convenience store is now, and about a quarter mile away was a truck stop that my friend and I would walk to in order to play games at the arcade there. I use the term arcade loosely- I think they had just two, Lunar Lander and Defender. And from elementary through high school, I could always be found in the library during breaks.