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(i) Hobbit and Bear's litter
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 At our home in Costa Mesa, CA
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 A girl named Carol modeling for my photo assignment Orange Coast College
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 OCC March, 1969
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 My new home April, 1969 |
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 Got a full time job in Laguna and attended programming classes at night in Santa Ana |
 389 Loma Terrace Laguna Beach, CA
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(i) I built this gate from an old discarded OCC fence to keep an obnoxious landlady out
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 View from my house
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 A random drive one weekend brought me through Mammoth Lakes
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(i) Someone else's negative
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 Someone else's negatives a photo lab returned to me
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 My 10 acres and trailer in Joshua Tree, CA
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 Then bought 2.5 acres in Mojave January, 1970
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 I-5 construction near Palmdale, CA
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(i) Lake Palmdale near Mohave
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 Bought this hand carved eagle in Baja, Mexico
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 Inside the Branstrator trailer
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 February, 1969
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 Just moved the trailer to my land
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 Found this tank at a renovating laundrymat
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 Bought this '49 Willys Jeep to tow the trailer
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 Bought this Chevy Nova so i could return east to find a programming job.
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 Saying goodby to housemate Doug Perske, fellow Marine |

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 Mesa Automotive agreed to store the Jeep since they had rebuilt the engine a few times |
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(i) The Colorado River
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 I met a girl, Debra J Hildebrand, on my new job
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 She agreed on a weekend's trip to the Cape July, 1970
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 This woman was also visiting my folks.
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 Tom Blakeman and Winston Kellogg sailing Win's boat
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 Megansett Harbor
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 Martha Douglas and friends quahogging Squeteague Harbor
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(i) Winston, Deb, Ginny and the owner in this steamboat Woods Hole |
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 Elizabeth Leal Giebel
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 Lizzy Giebel sitting at the natural spring
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 On the Cataumet dock
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 Erich boating
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 Hobbit meets a lobster
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 Liz inside her grandmother's driftwood sculpture
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 Deb Hildebrand and her folks are visiting friends in Enfield, ME
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 The Desert of Maine in Freeport
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 The Lincoln Theater in Maine
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 Andrew and Josephine Monteleone
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 My stuff in my folk's carport waiting for a place to go
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 I find a place in the local paper, buy it, clean it and move in. |
 For $100 down, Adele Dexter agrees to carry the $25K mortgage |
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 On the corner of Route 1 and Richard Rd
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 1 Richard Road Monmouth Junction, NJ |

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 Even my folks helped clean the place and my dad dug a trench for the new water line
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 My new home includes a cottage
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 A trap door in the kitchen goes to a full sized basement
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 This is exciting
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 Brother-in-law Kaare Karstad flys me overhead
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 At one time, this was a rock crushing plant.
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 My girlfriend Deb and I fly west to visit California March 31, 1971
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