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On the Demise of Texas Summer Camps and a Remembrance of Hells Past: It Wasn’t “Meatballs” or Camp Mystic

Although we played sports and had cookouts and ate hot dogs, it was less like Bill Murray’s iconic Meatballs (1979) and more like Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987). More like Boot Camp than Summer Camp. Continue reading

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