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Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide

Didja ever have some people exit your life, and you ended up wondering about them years later? People who don’t leave a huge digital footprint on myspace and linkedin and orkut and facebook, and yet you get curious about what the hey happened to them?

I had some friends two houses down when I was a little kidling, and I really loved spending time with them. Their parents had really tricked out their house, and what they managed to do with seventies technology was pretty impressive to a first-grade me. Their mom would feed us white bread, yellow mustard and baloney sandwiches for lunch, something that was verboten in my house – my mom was perpetually on a diet and fed us roasted turkey deli meat on dry high-fiber bread that had wood cellulose in it. Sawdust bread. Yeah. Continue reading