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mon uow the eggplant in the pot by the door, i wondered and asked what it was


there were deer in the yard

the satellite didn't work

the tv was scrambled 		050324
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mon uow arriving, getting my new room 050324
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mon uow looking out my window singing twinkle twinkle to the star i saw 050324
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mon uow getting in trouble for crawling out my window 050324
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mon uow my few weeks? of kindergarten, playing in a gym, and in a classroom singing oats and beans and barley 050324
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mon uow running in the woods and breaking my left wrist again 050324
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mon uow arranging my toys in my room, making my bed, saying a prayer with my mom 050324
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mon uow the wharf, my father explaining why it was dangerous 050324
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mon uow waiting to go back down there someday to learn how to swim like he said but it never happening 050324
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mon uow feeling, hearing, watching the train go by everyday 050324
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mon uow the spiral staircase 050324
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mon uow the bugs in the log walls 050324
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mon uow not going to church 050324
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mon uow crying for oatmeal before bed, being told it would keep me awake, me arguing it would help me sleep 050324
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mon uow learning how to sit in lotus position while watching a scrambled tv screen


flipping pages in a book, trying to read it 		050324
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mon uow the girl, my sisters' friend, sitting in the living room crying about how mean her family was to her, something about mayonnaise 050324
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mon uow my auntie G visiting, going to the woods to pick flowers 050324
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mon uow the 8-track player 050324
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mon uow jefferson airplane on the way back from the hospital with my wrist in a cast, wanting fried potatoes, getting ice cream 050324
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mon uow it_happening_again 050324
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mon uow rarely seeing my parents, them always working hard 050324
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mon uow it's all scrambled, confusing, i don't know for sure when i got there or when i left. 050324
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mon uow there's probably a lot of good things i've forgotten. it was a nice cabin. 050324
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mon uow there were pits of garter snakes in the woods 050324
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mon uow getting my blankie washed at the laundromat in duncan 050324
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mon uow my dad picking me up from kindergarten in his big red jacket 050324
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mon uow the burning of the antique doors my parents had collected, it was cold, we had no firewood, we were moving 050324
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mon uow cheating_death when we left 050324
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mon uow bottles of lemon perrier 050324
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mon uow faith hope and charity, three dolls

my mom giving them to my sisters and i
mine was charity, the name
my mother thought to name me but didn't
and my sisters hope and faith 		050325
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mon uow eating grilled cheese sandwiches and
the pickles my mom had pickled in kamloops 		050325
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mon uow getting a special blessing from a bishop and some elders because i thought god didn't love me anymore and i was worried about dying and going to hell because i wasn't baptized 050327
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mon uow staring at a picture of jesus, learning to read the bible 050327
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mon uow my green cotton nightie 050327
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mon uow me getting to pack the china for the first time, looking at the newspapers 050327
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mon uow eating peanut butter and mustard on carrots


hiding and drinking soya sauce 		050327
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mon uow spring to winter 1986 050327
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mon uow i knew i was confused about when i moved there, because i remembered the eggplant being big, and it didn't make sense that it would be ripe in the spring 050328
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mon uow we moved there in late summer 1985, i got my cast off and then my wrist broke again 050328
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mon uow we moved to victoria in the winter, i think

i mean i know it was winter but i was confused about the year

1985, not 1986 		050328
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mon uow visiting my brother and sisters at their school 050328
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mon uow seeing a 'midget man' in duncan, asking about him, learning about dwarfism 050328
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mon uow da vinci's last supper 050330
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mon uow the beatles 050330
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mon uow rain, mud 050330
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mon uow moss 050330
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mon uow tinkertoys, lego 050331
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mon uow "ring around the rosie" 050331
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mon uow tambourine 050331
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mon uow totem poles 050331
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mon uow cowichan sweaters 050331
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mon uow book of mormon 050331
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mon uow the zildjians 050413
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mon uow making paint with berries and things, painting

arbutus trees 		050413
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mon uow straightening the horseshoe on the wall to keep the luck in 050415
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mon uow eating radishes with my mom, her telling me rapunzel again, and rumpelstiltskin 050415
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mon uow and then me reading rapunzel and rumpelstiltskin myself, and thinking my mom's versions were better 050415
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mon uow playing the sleighbells (instrument 050415
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mon uow abraham lincoln joke
"four score and seven years ago...(the lines are changed)" 		050415
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