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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

Bunjov AT aol.com wrote:

>  
> I was five and a half, and he was four and a half, and we were  partners. Toy 
> cars and little dirt roads under our dining room window.  Hunting spiders. 
> Bird-watching with a pair of worn-out binoculars. Hiding up  under the boxcars 
> and pretending we were hoboes. Oh, that's the life for me!  Getting into 
> trouble for firing up the back yard incinerator at 4 a.m. on a  Saturday morning and 
> stealing our mother's potatoes just to see if we could bake  one in the coals 
> and eat it.

That sounds wonderful! I am glad you had such a great friend.
Speaking of books and boxcars, did anyone ever read _The Boxcar 
Children_ when they were kids?  I loved those books, fantasized about 
living that way.  Maybe they influenced my homesteading desires.


>  
> My mother and I, several years later, when I was a teenager, were taking  the 
> Long Beach 'red train' and I was so looking forward to finding Eddie again.  
> But we happened to pick up a local paper at one of the stops,and  of  the lead 
> articles told of how Eddie had been horribly maimed in an auto  accident.
>  
> I don't know where he is today.

You should find him.  You should tell him what you just told me/us. 
People live to hear things like that.  It's real and powerful.  You 
should find him now.

Bev
--
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from 
the government and I'm here to help.'"  Ronald Reagan