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      <image:caption>I wonder if I can still get her one of those single roses, wrapped in rigid plastic that they sell at the register in the gas station. Oh, I can get her a candy bar there too! I wonder if they sell greeting cards at the gas station. Hmmm, how much change do I have on me?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Where did my energy go?”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>SAD luring me into my pantry. “Look! Some green stuff and a tomato to make salsa. There are chips in the pantry!! Uuummm, crunchy and salty!!! Or how about some cookies? Candy perhaps? Raisin toast with cinnamon and sugar? A bowl of cereal? Anything. Anything for you my dear. Yes, yes make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich—oooo, add some toasted marshmallows to that!!!! Gasp!! So good!!! Good job. See you again in an hour.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is the postcard I had in my cubicle. Okay, admittedly, this was pushing the limits of “acceptable,” but I couldn’t NOT have it. St. Callahan, I pray to you for the courage to Do The Right Thing. Getty Image</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Perfect picture from Wonder. If Dirty Harry was a social worker.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“You want to talk about what is in my cubicle, now? Marvelous.” Getty Images</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Dirty Harry Comes for Thanksgiving Dinner - St. Gandhi inspired.</image:title>
      <image:caption>This is what I left on my chair in my cubicle on my last day at work in Snafu County, May 25, 2021.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>On my last day at Snafu County I couldn’t help but leave my last subversive, absurd message taped to the bottom of the toy car. I do wonder who discovered it. I hope they laughed! My coworkers who knew me would expect nothing less from me.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After partaking of the Suicidal Social Worker. (Until her alarm went off at 5:00 AM the next day.)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>And what may this cooler contain? Feet? Hands? A mixture of both? Probably not a head. Definitely not a torso. Getty Images</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Books, not boobs, apparently.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>How cute, cat tracks. No, not about a hangman’s noose.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Really? Does it have chunks of charcoal in it? Sprinkled with ash perhaps? Just laugh, Bunny, just laugh!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Beauty can grow from the dark, depths. Horror can fertilize joy. Behold my wonderful, fucked-up brain.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Image from Pixabay</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Even this handsome buck would not partake of the pumpkin…no one would!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Trust</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“I love you.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Too bad you are a vegetarian. I know a great burrito truck close by. Their chicken burritos are to die for!” Getty Images</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1975, Larry’s first day of kindergarten, Mt. Hamilton, CA. Larry, age 5, the author, Bunny, age 9.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NOT the actual investigation photo, but not far off. Just restrict the fresh air and natural light and you get the idea. Photo by Pixabay.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is NOT what I found in that home, but it is what I wish for for all children! Photo by Pixabay.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>What my boots looked liked, minus the easy access zippers.  I wish they still existed.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Suspenders for fire turnouts</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“Paradise In Your Backyard”—You cannot make this shit up!!!!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Memorial Garden—broken, burnt pottery, my grandma’s china, burnt branches, burnt rocks</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Why wait to until retirement?  Who gives a fuck!?  Shave it off!!!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Let’s play cards, ATF</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Fireside candle—lost two in the fire. Got my replacements!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cozy Fireside soap—A new ATF find!!!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Specter did not appreciate this—what a turd!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>When life gives you the Camp Fire—make s’mores!!!!!!! My Halloween costume—“The Camp Fire” Halloween 2019, 9 days before the first anniversary of the fire (My Phoenix bowl—The Universe saved it for me for ATF)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>BTF—Spring time in Magalia, my cute home</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>BTF—Winter in Magalia, my cozy home</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>ATF—Post 11/8/18 Magalia, my burnt home</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Paradise Not: An Absurdist’s Perspective on Life - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>11/8/18, 7:39 AM, 1 hour and 20 minutes after the fire started and 20 minutes after I knew I had to evacuate</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>8:22 AM, Evacuating by the Fastrip gas station in Paradise, 1.3 miles from my home, 13624 Yana Court, Magalia</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>11/8/18, 9:26 AM.  We made it to the valley floor.  Ku-Co in his carrier.  Blown pupils tell it all.  This was in the parking lot of the Ramanda Inn in Chico.  Already they have no vacancies due to the people fleeing the fire; they advised me to go north or south to try and find a room.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>1:18 PM, now displaced in the hotel, my worldly possessions, as the rest of my possessions no longer exist</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>11:26 PM, Ku-Co as a DC (displaced cat) in the hotel—“What’s happened to my life?”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>DC Ku-Co, Fire plus one day in hotel.  Happy Ma packed his favorite toy for the evacuation. “Look, it’s right here!  I got it!”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Resilient Ku-Co watching a wildlife show on TV in the hotel.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>11:41 AM, Fire plus 2 days, DC Ku-Co in hotel, looking at smoky air in Yuba City, 48 miles south of Paradise</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Fire plus 6 days, Replacement shopping.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Fire plus 12 days, living displaced. Grateful for the Hoffman’s putting us up. Grateful for my sense of humor!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I think this says it all.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>12/8/18, exactly one month after the fire.  Lovely the deer.  I had peanut butter and jelly and she had carrots and bird seed for lunch.  She stayed close (6 feet) for half an hour as we ate and talked, or near (in the yard) as I surveyed the property—two beings that needed each other’s presence.  “Can you believe what happened?” we said.  “I am glad you are alive,” we said.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One month after the fire.  Only one house survived in our entire neighborhood, but so did this tree; the burnt hills can be seen beyond.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>January 16, 2019, two months and 8 days after the fire.  Life wants to live.  Daffodils on Yana Court.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Now living in another state, I have bought property with my family, and when we finish building and move there, this will be for my driveway.  Fuck you, Specter!</image:caption>
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