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Personal

1960: Born at Swedish hospital. I’m a month early and weigh less than 5 pounds.

1961: According to family lore I spend most of the year crying. 

1962: Make Grandma Thora promise that she’ll never get old. She promises.

1963: John F.

Kennedy dies. 

1964: After winning the sack race at my own birthday party, am told that it isn’t polite for the birthday girl to claim the prize. I cry and pout and am sent to my room.

1965: Get caught drawing pictures of naked people.

1966: My dad and his best friend build an A-frame cabin on Whidbey Island.

Spend a decade of idyllic summers on the shores of Useless Bay.

1967: Lay on a skateboard as I travel down a hill, dragging the toes of my saddle shoes because I hate them. Get in lots of trouble but it’s worth it because my replacement shoes are adorable red t-straps. Big sister Anne never gets over the unfairness.

1968: My straight-laced