my dad packed up his little family and moved us to cali so he could become a chiropractor. i was 6. i get on the bus, for my first day of school, and all the seats are taken. i hear a voice say "you can sit here" (i know, i know...straight out of forrest gump. i SWEAR this is how it happened!). i sit down to next to kris, the girl who would become my best friend/sister. we spent the next 4 years living it up in the 'nard (oxnard, ca). riding bikes to the marina. sailing channel island. stealing candy from the thrifty mart (sorry mama). going to movies no child should see (dog day afternoon, really? we were 9), sometimes with john caradine in tow (kung fu's dad, and no...i did not just make that up). our parents became besties. life was perfect. UNTIL: august 1976. dad finished school and decided the 'nard didn't need a chiropractor. we moved back to lebanon, ohio. it would not be unfair to say i hated my parents. kris was family and i would never see her again. we were only 10.
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