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Kindergarten Can Wait

June 10, 2015October 10, 2017 by Bill Donahue

At age 5, Christian Thomas Geiger hiked the Appalachian Trail, all 2,180 miles of it, with his mother and stepdad. Was this an act of child abuse? 

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Edited by Dennis Lewon. Photographs by Brown W. Cannon III.
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