Tag: California
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California
My parents lived across the street from each other in San Jose.That’s how they met. Two families, both of whom had come to California from somewhere else, both of whom ended up on the same street as neighbors, and their kids found each other, and here I am. If either family had chosen a different…
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Montaña de Oro
I found it when I was at Cal Poly, and it became my favorite place on earth, and it has never lost the title. The entrance is a road lined with eucalyptus, tall and silver green, and driving into it always did something to me, some small reliable lift, like the curtain going up before…
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Shithole people
I took a break from hospice volunteer work for a while. But I always come back to thoughts about my very first assignment, a man I ended up calling Elvis, though that was nowhere near his real name. He was born in China, moved to Brazil as a young man, and came to America once…
Whatever Held 