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Just being a kid
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Eve and Eli on the paper route in East Falls
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WHYY
Eve Moulton, 11, has spent two years delivering the East Falls monthly paper, The Fallser, on foot and by bike, and she recruited her 4-year-old brother Eli to help. She's got rules by now: keep your hand away from any hole in a screen door, and never leave a paper somewhere it'll get rained on.
The parent said yes
Their dad rides along on the delivery bike every month, but Eve and Eli are the ones throwing the papers. He used the time to talk about saving money and what it means to have a boss, not to take the job off their hands.
Why we picked this one
A monthly paper route isn't a career, it's forty houses and a bike. But it comes with a real boss, a real deadline, and a real problem if the paper lands somewhere wet. Nobody taught Eve the screen door thing. A dog did.
No papers to throw, but same idea: leash on, out the door, around the block, back home, no phone. The dog doesn't check anybody's age before it needs to go.
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Where it happened:
East Falls, Philadelphia, PA
Somewhere near you there's a route, a stack of flyers, a block that needs walking twice a month. Yours is eleven too, and the bike's already in the garage.