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and it's very hard finding out by listening to people talk
a bout it.I guess I'm a bit out of it,and I'm not ashamed
to -say so,I wonder what other people do during the summer?
I'll bee they do eore onciting things then I do, out L won't
make any guesses at that,because when I'm wrong aboutwhat
ony-O' '-ho 1j-Lmg, omemyyo o yells rt a- if it wore .y fault
there's nothing to do around here,and I shouldn't think a-
uu : - ' .: o o e ' I t. o ot o ' it ;
o tool es when si rb: o else os do. aoh; -.1 : '
ever write a bock though,I haven't got the patience or the
experience to fill a book with,'.’/hen I get older,,I might get
o 1 01 , . . : o t yet, : . o v -o o ins you uoo
to do to be a dec-ent writer is to listen to things as you.
hear them,and then remember them later.I got that from
someone who was on a show on cable TV.She was a writer-di-
Ov.oos- o o'. -- oo .mouse-. ! ; ■ - ,
buc not while she was on the tube.She was an interesting
character,.though,.but I'll bet her parents have disowned her
by now.It was a wierd program because by the end of the show,
os 0 oo’ one section of one audience yel l.yj iskn- oosa-laosu,
and the other side of tbe audience was yelling Tooka-Takka-
Teeeee.Ther:, the rest of the audiece was. saying Tinka-Tonka-
Tooooo.It was pretty neat watching all -these people swaying; to the rhythym and saying strange things,but I guess you had to be tbere.
After the eighth grade was over,..we had-a big party to
close out the year.The party wasn't really that exciting,but
I told the girls that threw It it was good.After the party,
My parents didn't come to pick me up because they thought it
was over -at twelve,but it was over at eleven,so I thought .b
I'd end up waiting around until midnight for my mom to res-
cue me..Luckily,there wasa phone around, so I called up and
was saved.But when 1 got picked up,I wanted to stay around
because I was having, a great time just talking to the people
that were, waiting for me to leave.I never thanked them for
wat ti ng around Trike that,but I should have,because tbey prob—
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- mark thomas
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