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12:20:2002 Entry: "Ann : Raynham, Massachusetts"

Raynham, Massachusetts

Some weird referral led me to do a search on the places I used to live. I found this school. It only housed first and second graders when I went there, which are the grades I was in when I lived there--how convenient. We lived behind the school across a field. My parents cut a path in the field with a sickle so that I could walk to school. In the first grade, my mom would walk with me across the field every morning, until the weather got too bad. Then I took the bus. I'd vomit each day before I boarded the bus. I don't know which was worse, taking a bus with a bunch of kids who never wanted to sit by the new kid, or being the only kid to walk to school across a field. I can't believe this school still exists...I would have dreams that I'd go back to see it and it'd be in ruins, like something from ancient Greece. Hopefully, Stan and I will get to travel out east this fall to see his biomom and meet his biograndma for the first time. They live not far from this place where I lived--how ironic is that? I swear Stan and I were destined to find eachother...somehow. While he was a little kid in Colorado 2000 miles away, I was out east living about 50 miles the way the crows fly from his biological mother. And his biological dad's birthday is two days before mine, and his biological mom's birthday is three days after mine. How weird is that? We were in eachother's stars. Yet I digress. I'll be fascinated to see how it's changed in the past 33 years...I'm sure not for the better, at least aesthetically. We'll also have to check out where I lived in upstate New York (Liverpool) when I was around 9, (it was a total Brady Bunch neighborhood) and South Bend, IN where I grew up as a pre-schooler.

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