Many years later, in our late twenties, we reconnected and have been together since. I have idea of those two things are related. Eventually his alcoholic dad started questioning things and that is when my family moved to another town. His older brother used to tease that I was his gf.

Both being shy, it took us a while to express our feelings, we just spent a lot of time together like best friend do. I met my husband when we were both 13, in Home Ec class- I know, right?- we were seated next to each other and became lab partners, then friends. I've shared this story before, it makes me smile at the universe. To complete the find fuck, this was all interspersed with normal summer camp - games, swimming, canoeing, camp fire sing alongs- periods where they weren't being Commies.Ĭamp ended Sunday and at breakfast that morning all the counselors were super nice and returned items that were taken and tried to explain the reason behind all of it - to teach us the evils of Communism and what could happen if America ever went down that path.Ĭommunist Camp is a true story and I still can't believe it whenever I tell it. If you refused any demands, you were sent back to your cabin/bunk or had to clean up in the main hall - as 'jail.' They acted angry and gruff and might take food away from you, or come into your bunk and take something that belonged to you, or interrupt whatever you were doing and order you to do something else on a whim. The camp counselors at times wore red arm bands and 'taught' us what it was like to live in a communist society - basically stripping us of all rights. Unbeknownst to me, the 'theme' of camp for the week was Communism.

When I was in grade school, I went to summer camp at the aptly named Luthercrest, on Lake Carlos, outside of Alexandria, Minnesota. While my family wasn't Lutheran or particularly religious at all, I did have a lot of Lutheran classmates given where I lived. I grew up in Moorhead, Minnesota - across the Red River from Fargo North, Dakota.

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