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One summer between university classes, I took a job as a counselor for the Campfire Girls. The camp was located near Parkville, Mo., in the deep woods above the Missouri River north of Kansas City. I had been a Brownie and a Girl Scout from elementary through junior high school years but Campfire Girls was…