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05/10/2006
May 10
Sometime this summer I'm going to move. I'm going to leave my charming little bungalow and live in a place with new neighbors, new rooms, new pathways. I'll leave the pile of dirt in the basement where the new sewer pipe went in and where the roots from the maple get churned out. I'll leave the long-legged spiders that have lived generation after generation since perhaps before the house was even there. I'l leave the Plines and the Martins. The porches. The rumbling water heater. The cat odor that wells up from the basement.
I'll leave the garden.
I'll find new spiders, new neighbors, new dirt. New bills. No more $308 house payment. No more skimpy tax bill. No more friendly credit union. No more neighbors who will mow my little patch of front lawn for me or notice when I stay up until 2:30
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