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mon uow saanich (victoria 050327
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mon uow great big house, semi-tudoresque exterior 050327
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mon uow flower garden with a bird bath


butterflies
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mon uow 1987, spring and summer 050327
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mon uow sneaking to the store with my sisters to get a card for mother's day 050327
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mon uow transformers and she-ra 050327
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mon uow the new chesterfields arriving 050327
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mon uow first loonie, new and shiny 050327
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mon uow shaka zulu 050327
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mon uow first grade correspondence lessons on some days, at the kitchen table 050327
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mon uow : stars : 050327
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mon uow meech lake accord 050327
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mon uow nba playoffs

rooting for celtics vs. lakers


celtics losing
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mon uow meeting the neighbourhood kids, them being friendly 050327
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mon uow my mom getting sicker and sicker, her taking hot showers and showers and showers every day when she was home from work, just to try to get warm, me confused why 050327
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mon uow her showing me how to make paper dolls and dresses 050327
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mon uow learning how to sew 050327
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mon uow howard the duck


& the stuff
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mon uow carebears carebears carebears 050327
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mon uow hearing on the phone that my parents had 'won' a new car, because they sold the most machines 050327
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mon uow playing with the girl next door, her giving me a bottle of glue, me rejecting it and telling her about the kids where i was living before at 'the junkie house', her telling me it was okay, that her mom worked for the glue company and that it was non-toxic, not the sniffing kind

getting her mom to tell me about making glue


playing with the glue
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mon uow our cat marble running away

the neighbours bringing her back


her having six-toed kittens, me helping to feed the kittens with eyedroppers because she wasn't taking care of them, her running away again, me going to look for her
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mon uow looking through the landlord's stuff in the storage space, playing with christmas decorations


happy to find old archie comics, older than the ones i'd seen, reading them and putting them back
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mon uow cleaning 050327
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mon uow hole being punched in the wall, me not talking, 'mary had a little lamb' 050327
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mon uow giving a kitten to the cop-lady next door 050327
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mon uow hiding from the social worker lady 050327
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mon uow missing my mom when she was having brain surgery, worried about her, waiting to hear from her



my father on the phone laughing, flirting, me thinking it was my mom, grabbing the phone, another woman's voice
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mon uow drawing on pizza boxes, making dolls 050327
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mon uow watching alien 050327
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mon uow and aliens, me identifying with newt 050327
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mon uow asking my oldest_sister if she could 'be my mommy' since my mom wasn't around 050327
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mon uow wwf & maple leaf wrestling 050327
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mon uow making my first_book, that i can remember 050327
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mon uow kraft dinner 050327
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mon uow a box of national geographic magazines

looking at pictures and reading,
magazine after magazine


the afghan lady's eyes

human evolution

dinosaurs
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mon uow eating at white spot, meeting my grandpa for the first time 050327
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mon uow picking out a doll with the money he gave my mom to buy me something 050327
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mon uow getting cracker-jacks from the neighbour-kids
pinky, bikrum, & binapol
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mon uow finding the box of family photos, looking through finding a picture of my mom as a little girl

wondering about my ancestors
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mon uow drawing pictures with my mom's makeup, because it smeared better than crayons 050327
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mon uow drawing on the wall with crayons 050327
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mon uow crackers 050328
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mon uow talking to crows 050328
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mon uow playing the mirror game with my brother and sisters, making everything seem upside down, holding mirrors under our eyes and looking down into them, like walking on the ceiling, walking on the sky 050328
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mon uow saw_something in the mirror and screamed 050328
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mon uow summer 1986 - summer 1987


christmas,
watching rudolph

new years 1987
a storm

wind in the trees

my mother sing-telling abiyoyo
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mon uow the previous tenants had had a garden

there were potatoes, and squash we picked and ate


it didn't make much sense to me that that could've been spring 87, though we lived there then as well.



it was late summer 86
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mon uow stopping my younger from pulling the daddy long legs' legs off 050328
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mon uow looking for faeries in the flowers 050328
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mon uow frightened in bed, something happening, confused 050328
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mon uow bathtub rust 050328
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mon uow the monkees 050330
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mon uow pink floyd (the wall) 050330
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mon uow dairy queen blizzards 050330
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mon uow alvin and the chipmunks 050330
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mon uow jumpin jack flash 050330
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mon uow wheel of fortune 050330
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mon uow the sand pile 050330
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mon uow encyclopedia britannica 050331
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mon uow kartwheeling in the hallway


looking at the painting on the wall, birds in the air
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mon uow stranger_in_the_mirror 050404
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mon uow the color purple 050413
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mon uow adam and eve cartoon, heart-shaped heart 050413
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mon uow waking up early and covering all the living room funiture in thread, spools of thread, making a big web over everything

crawling around under the web

tearing it down after
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mon uow krull

beastmaster

conan (the barbarian, the destroyer

red sonja
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mon uow highway to heaven

littlest hobo
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mon uow red grape juice 050415
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mon uow elastic spool cars 050415
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mon uow clan of the cave bear, the movie 050415
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mon uow the bookshelf for boys and girls (bookset, 1962, blue

especially enjoying:
things to make and do
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mon uow helping deflea and deworm the cats 050416
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