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Legends of Myself 97
97. Highway 16, 1961: Pepper and Partings I think it must have been a warm sunny September that year on the Skeena. On our second day on the road continuing on from Tyee, I remember the heat of the pavement creating illusions of water ahead of us as we walked. We were as kids impressed […]
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Legends of Myself 96
August 24, 2014
96. Highway 16, 1961: Four Ragtags I left school, and the four of us left Prince Rupert, presumably because the money ran out —what little of it my father had after the fire in the Boneyard. The new digs we retreated to, a block or two away, were more expensive than the Grand. We couldn’t […]
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Legends of Myself 95
August 17, 2014
95. Prince Rupert. 1961: Milk Cans and Dinky Toys When they came to town, Marylou was 12, scheduled to turn 13 that November, and Irene was 15. Irene was a little too much older than me to bond with as a peer, and I was too snobby intellectually to accept her in a motherly, elder-sisterly […]
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August 29, 2014
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