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peculiarities of the place in which i grew up #4
Constant rumbling in one ear other the other — trapped water from the many hours lived in the swimming pool. This water often led to various ear and sinus infections, so the feeling of lying on a bed, with head dangling upside down, letting the antibiotic ear- or nose-drops properly get absorbed, is also a…
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Peculiarities of living on the side of Camelback Mountain: The dentist’s castle. My house, on Saddlerock Drive, was directly below the mountain from Copenhaver Castle, built by a Phoenix orthodontist. I was a kid when it was being built, and my utter enchantment at the whole idea made me overcome my lack of adventurousness —…
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A combo of dry desert air and deep seventies shag carpet led to constant, chronic, zingy static electricity. As an attempt to discharge the static and avoid the pop! dammit! zap, we flicked doorknobs, walls, and jambs before touching our tender handflesh to their surfaces. As a result, our fingers on the nail-side tended to…
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Bomb shelters! Quite a few underground dwellings (for cozy protection during the nuclear apocalypse) existed in Phoenix in the post-atomic heyday of the late 60s/early 70s. Ours was under our carport, accessed by a heavy iron door in the floor and a ladder leading down into a fantastic and very creepy room. It was outfitted…
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Right now, my browser has three Wikipedia tabs open: Sigue Sigue Sputnik Cotillion Leslie, Austin’s most famous vagrant cross-dresser I am nothing if not an eclectic gal. The photo above is from about the time that I started attending Cotillion training in Phoenix. I wore white gloves, learned how to converse in high-brow small talk…
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