Mr. BOB VAN DER HORN (father of Chris): We decided to raise our children without guns until we found that every stick in the yard turned into a gun and every finger was gun.

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She likes to tell the one about building a fort, stick by stick, in her yard at age 6.

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Mount Hood Meadows jammed a stick in Hanna's spokes: It agreed to buy the land and 100-yard drive to Skibowl's east parking lot, blocking Hanna from using it.

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