> I may have mentioned this before. I'm about to mention it again.
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> Long ago I lived in North Carolina. You could tell it was long ago, because I was under the age of ten, I played with He-Man toys and the average American had never heard of the Internet.
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> We lived in Charlotte. Ever been to Carowinds amusement park? We lived ten minutes from there. That ruled.
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> I went to public school then. I hated it. Most of the kids were mean. I had one friend from from my church who I waited at the bus stop with. One time a kid who lived next door to me came and threw rocks at us.
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> I learned to ride a bicycle in Charlotte. I still know how. Most of my childhood bicycle wrecks took place there. I used to ride down to the creek; there was a vine you could swing on out over the creek. That was a lot of fun. I liked to go hunting for crawdads in the creek.
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> We went to a little Southern Baptist church. There was a forest behind it, and we used to go exploring out there sometimes after church. One time I was out there with my sister and we saw a snake! We went running and I left my sister behind. She's never let me forget that...
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> The first and only time I ever went to the circus was at the Charlotte Convention Center.
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> What memories.
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> Gri"ramble down memory lane with me"shny


They have a nice racetrack there too. I went to the Cushman national meet there a few year ago and stayed for a week. I slept in a tent and went to the Carpenter's Cushman Museum just down the road. I rode my oldest scooter around the track 14 times and had the greatest time of my life. I even saw a few races. On the day that I left, I parked my scooter in Victory Circle and took a pictue of it. As you may have guessed, I really like North Carolina. But I never lived there.
Howard