I remember pet rocks.

I remember kissing Heather Burton after school in her walk-in closet in fourth grade & her lip gloss the flavor of Fruit Stripe gum.

I remember shooting the rabbit with the BB gun & the way it leapt & twisted.

I remember my second cousin's bikini top slipping off in the pool at the summer family reunion and pretending I wasn't looking.

I remember the beer cans hidden in my father's workbench drawers.

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I remember anticipating next episodes & rushing home from school.

I remember the way my mother brushed her hair after a rushed dye job before heading to work at the airport diner.

I remember rolling through stop signs in bad neighborhoods that really weren't that bad but I believed my father.

I remember smoking clove cigarettes & thinking I was cool but really who did I think I was fooling?

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Dad, I remember traveling with you in the tractor. You'd let me control the lever to grab the old individually wrapped round bales.

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