PAWNSHOPS, STARBUCKS, and RUNNING

When we were in college in the early 1970s, my future husband and I used to take the bus to downtown Seattle and walk through the city, visiting 5 and 10 Antiques sometimes, where my mother worked part time. I have a necklace from that shop. We always went to what Gary called the “Pubic Margaret.” Then we worked our way down First Avenue pawnshops, looking at guitars. That was our Saturday habit for ten years.

The Christmas Cactus clearly indicated it planned to bloom by Christmas—not on Christmas but soon. By New Years Eve, it had begun opening buds. It is still in full flower. Gary’s plastic dinosaur is Marc, named for Marc Bolan of the band T. Rex.
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