kamloops
mon uow stardust street 050320
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mon uow and sahali, and westside 050320
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mon uow westsyde 050320
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mon uow first memories i remember 050320
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mon uow 1982 050320
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mon uow my younger brother was born
my parents got married
we started going to church 		050320
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mon uow et
the_frog
and the_moon 		050321
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mon uow first broken left wrist 050321
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mon uow floating 050321
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mon uow sunflowers 050321
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mon uow mudbath 050321
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mon uow madonna and springsteen 050321
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mon uow the girl with the hole in her throat 050321
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mon uow jars broken ants 050321
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mon uow the neverending story 050321
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mon uow the piano that was sold 050321
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mon uow the driveway lions 050321
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mon uow bathing in the sink 050321
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mon uow dogs and doughnuts 050321
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mon uow chasing the ice cream truck 050321
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mon uow kicking the girl
when i learned
it was real meat 		050321
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mon uow arguing
with my primary teacher (in church) 		050321
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mon uow mister rogers and the friendly giant 050321
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mon uow getting dressed up on sundays 050321
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mon uow the sanded desk 050321
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mon uow the crabapple tree 050321
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mon uow sitting in a truck full of cucumbers
the drive to the farm to pick them up 		050321
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mon uow the first nations man on the bridge 050321
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mon uow the kitchen table 050321
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mon uow mr. dressup, my favourite 050321
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mon uow saying "mushy mushy"
when seeing people kiss 		050321
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mon uow playing with juan solomon and sheba 050321
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mon uow hearing about chocolate covered beetles 050321
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mon uow my grandma's garden

my grandma's trailer

rollie pollie fisheads

mosquito bites 		050321
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mon uow christmases 050321
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mon uow swingset
playing with my cousin M


my uncle joe telling me
about his son's birth 		050321
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mon uow the boy at the park
in my grandma's trailerpark
saying
faster than a speeding bullet
faster than the speed of light, of sound 		050321
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mon uow running behind a house on wheels
rolling down the road 		050321
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mon uow popeye cigarettes, cousins B and S 050321
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mon uow the lady i thought was my nanna but wasn't 050321
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mon uow cabbage patch kids 050321
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mon uow room full of tv's 050322
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mon uow scrambled)

1982)

third_birthday 1983)
she_was_three_years_old)

1984&5 		050322
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mon uow window looking 050322
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mon uow the friend of my grandma's who got mad at
my sisters and i for "breaking the toys" 		050322
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mon uow the really big man at church 050322
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mon uow kittens in a closet 050322
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mon uow being dropped off at a babysitter's
watching pinocchio

an angry man, a woodstack, outside
me crying, being picked up

me playing a toy piano,
and other children playing other toys

and a woman making me food
and me making sure she wasn't cooking meat 		050322
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mon uow a house we stayed at, distant relatives
me playing in the woods behind their house
i think a creek
the man got mad, i remember him yelling 		050322
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mon uow a pool, not knowing how to swim
i think it was night,
the pool was covered, indoor
and there were lights


and another pool
a pool we had, my brother almost drowned 		050322
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mon uow the bird and the glass
my cookie monster shirt 		050322
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mon uow burning my hand on the stove 050322
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mon uow crying
while my older brother and sister
cut my hair all raggedy 		050322
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mon uow strawberry shortcake, secret handshake 050322
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mon uow another pool, little kind, green


and a bike accident
i went running to see,
they were scratched up 		050322
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mon uow tomatoes my mom planted 050322
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mon uow running away with my brothers and sisters
only getting as far as up the block
resting
with our stick-held-bags in the bushes
and then deciding to go back home
hungry

a game 		050322
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mon uow singing the gypsies song
and "popcorn popping on the apricot tree" 		050322
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mon uow neighbours, church people,
a party, a trampoline 		050322
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mon uow a strange man, 'the strangest man' 050322
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mon uow scrambled)

1982)

1983)

1984&5) 		050322
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mon uow yard sale, things stolen 050322
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mon uow praying for my oldest brother
when he was having brain surgery

getting out of the tub
with shampoo still in my hair
when i heard the phone ring
and hearing he was okay 		050322
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mon uow playing with plasticene on the stairs

peeking through the rails, a conversation

supposed to be in bed already 		050322
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mon uow halley's comet 050323
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mon uow 1986 050323
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mon uow challenger exploding, live on tv 050323
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mon uow glowworm, lite brite 050323
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two my little ponies, eureka's castle 050323
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mon uow kamloops? or 80's? toy association? : ) 050323
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palm do you live near kamloops? 050323
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mon uow me? or two? 050323
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mon uow my family's schoolbus camper 050323
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palm I'm touring BC with choir end up april and may. I want to know if I'll pass near you at all.
you _ monadh ... mon...nomeeeeee 		050323
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mon uow hey palm, choirs are cool, email me?

nom.mon@gmail.com


i don't live near kamloops,...
haven't been back there
since i left (in 1986?)

but i'm still in bc.)

remembering kamloops 		050323
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mon uow scrambled)

1982)
1983)
1984)
1985)
1986)

scrambled) 		050323
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mon uow crying when he had to give emily? the cat away, because she jumped in my younger brother's crib one night 050323
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mon uow the humpty dumpty trunk
"time to put away the toys" 		050323
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mon uow playing at the beach wih my grandma and my mom, eating hot mustard on bread and complaing that the mustard was too hot
me with my sand pail making a castle, the water taking it down,
getting on the bus at the bus stop, looking back at the beach,
irritated by the sand i realized was trapped in between my cast and my skin, trying to get my hand in there to scratch the itch 		050324
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mon uow the seahorse tiles 050324
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mon uow colouring with a girl in my grandma's trailerpark, at the coffee table in the living room of her home 050324
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mon uow me peeling the crayons and breaking them 050324
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mon uow crying when we had to give the dogs away 050324
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mon uow holly hobby 050324
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mon uow punkin 050324
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mon uow singing along to boy george on tv 050325
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mon uow
and dancing

"do you really want to hurt me"


my mom explaining why he was dressed pretty

me learning the words homosexual and transvestite 		050325
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mon uow and cyndi lauper, i loved her

me singing "girls just want to have fun", and "time after time" 		050325
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mon uow eurythmics "sweet dreams" 050325
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mon uow me curious about 'the seven seas') 050325
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mon uow desperately seeking susan 050325
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mon uow splash 050325
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mon uow ghostbusters 050325
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mon uow back to the future 050325
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mon uow the goonies 050325
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mon uow gremlins 050325
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mon uow return of the jedi 050325
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mon uow dune 050325
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mon uow close encounters (of the third kind) 050325
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mon uow poltergeist 050325
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mon uow the shining (me freaked out watching) 050325
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mon uow scrambled)

1982)
1983)
1984)
1985)
1986)

scrambled) 		050325
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mon uow stopping my younger brother from throwing the kittens down the stairs and telling him why 050325
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mon uow riding my tricycle



and then my little bike
with training wheels 		050325
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mon uow flashdance 050328
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mon uow thriller 050328
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mon uow *correction:

left in summer 1985


halley's comet
and
challenger exploding
happened in catherine_street 		050328
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mon uow waterbabies & the little prince, my mom reading 050330
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mon uow me trying to read the programmes in the church that 'the fat man' handed out, making paper airplanes and hats with him 050330
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mon uow the landlord across the road mowing the lawn


the chinese statues 		050330
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mon uow rhubard pie 050330
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mon uow watching my grandma starting to make macaroni, her telling me it had to bake still


suntanning in my bathingsuit in the trailer yard

my younger brother grabbing the sprinkler and spraying me, me crying and screaming at my brother, my grandma running out the door, my brother dropping the sprinkler and running, my grandma chasing him, him running inside and locking the door


standing in the yard with my grandma, trying to get my brother to unlock the door, him unable, her saying "the cassserole!", me crying


my grandma going to use the neighbour's phone





my dad and the locksmith arriving frantically, smoke coming out the door, my brother crying, the casserole charred black


me feeling bad for screaming and causing my grandma to come rushing out the door and the door getting locked and the casserole getting burnt, but blaming my younger brother for spraying me with the water 		050330
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mon uow my grandma giving me flowerseeds, planting some, tucking the rest into my brown leather pouch, treasuring them 050330
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mon uow sesame street
fraggle rock
the muppets 		050330
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mon uow "oh susanna don't you cry for me" 050330
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mon uow wind in the willows


winnie the pooh 		050331
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mon uow the dark crystal 050331
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mon uow an eclipse 050401
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mon uow me running around saying fuck and my oldest_sister telling me not to, and then a day her saying fuck and me shocked because 'she doesn't swear' 050402
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mon uow my mom telling me she had eyes in the back of her head, me believing her, but then disbelieving her, and asking her about the eyes in the back of her head, realizing she didn't actually have eyes in the back of her head 050402
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mon uow amen almond 050403
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mon uow mr. mom 050407
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mon uow my dad watching tv, basketball


first hit 		050407
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mon uow him reading me a book 050413
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