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Originally Posted by bfisher
I found it interesting that the date is set as the summer of 1928. Was that the 8 years old Ray Douglas Bradbury, the son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, or was it last idyllic summer before the changes of the Great Depression, WW2 and the Atomic Age? Possibly both?
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I wondered about the date relative to the boys' ages, after looking up when Bradbury was born.
I thought perhaps he made Doug twelve because that might be considered the last year of childhood and a carefree existence.