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Two unrelated childhood memories
Jun. 20th, 2023 03:16 am1. The very first slice of pizza I can remember eating was in Brooklyn. This wasn't the first slice of pizza I ever ate, I don't think, but it must have been one of the first ones we ate in NYC after coming up from Louisiana because Daddy was very enthused about the superior quality compared to pizza in other places. I remember folding the pizza to drip off some of the oil.
2. When I was an adolescent I spent a lot of time in bookstores. My mother worked two blocks from the WTC, and I often went to the Borders there after school. One day Mommy left work and went to meet me at the bookstore, and get a few books for herself, and a cashier looked up as she walked in, a perfect stranger to her, and said "Oh, hi, your daughter's upstairs!" I can remember that store so clearly. They had a fake tree separating the chapter books from the picture books, and originally there was a green carpet underneath to look like grass, with a curvy edge where the children's section ended. But that carpet got too stained, so they replaced it with a stars and planets carpet, still with the curvy edge under the tree.
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2. When I was an adolescent I spent a lot of time in bookstores. My mother worked two blocks from the WTC, and I often went to the Borders there after school. One day Mommy left work and went to meet me at the bookstore, and get a few books for herself, and a cashier looked up as she walked in, a perfect stranger to her, and said "Oh, hi, your daughter's upstairs!" I can remember that store so clearly. They had a fake tree separating the chapter books from the picture books, and originally there was a green carpet underneath to look like grass, with a curvy edge where the children's section ended. But that carpet got too stained, so they replaced it with a stars and planets carpet, still with the curvy edge under the tree.
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