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Dearest EXPLORE reader… Welcome to May. Hopefully the cold weather is past us, and we can all break out our swim trunks and twinkle our toes in the Guadalupe sometime soon. Nothing makes you feel younger than sitting beneath a giant cypress tree, dangling your feet in the water, and simply listening to the whispers of the trees. They’ll tell you secrets if you listen closely. But then, aren’t most secrets whispered? Isn’t the most profound knowledge found when we listen closely, and stop talking? Whether children or adults, our ability to garner information is only utilized when we are still. I’ve been learning a lot about this lately, and it can be a tough lesson to learn. If you’ve ever read any of the Publisher’s Letters, you know that this is my opportunity to discuss issues that affect me, but ultimately, I think they affect us all. One of the larger themes of the Publisher’s corner is that, in the end, we’re all the same. We all like to think that our problems, situations, and dreams are uniquely ours, but for the most part, they’re quite common. I don’t say that to diminish what you feel, but just to say that we’re all in this together, and no matter how lost we might feel in our lives, somebody is close by that can give you a helping hand. And don’t we all need a helping hand sometimes? My helping hand came via a whisper not too long ago, and I’m still trying to understand the true significance of it. I’m a control freak. I know I shouldn’t be, but I am. I’ve had a few people fail me in life, and perhaps it’s a byproduct of that, but I’m pretty certain that nobody can do a better job than me. That’s not an egotistical statement, but in my head nobody can do the job just the way I want it done. So I do the job. And that job. And another job. And take out the trash. And then do another job. And then I’m very confused as to why each job was done less than perfect. So my wife was lying with me on the couch watching TV, and during a muted commercial whispered in my ear, “Just be still. You can’t do everything.” Instead of asking her what she meant, or laughing, I simply said “I know.” And so that’s where I’ve been of late. For you, the reader, this is actually good news. I’ve tossed one publication, leaving me with more time. That time has equaled a renewed focus on the content that we provide to you here in EXPLORE. EXPLORE is so much fun to create, and we are blessed to meet some of the most amazing people. I didn’t recognize it, but in my haste to produce hundreds of pages of content across several magazines, I wasn’t able to focus on any single publication the way I would like. I hope that you’ve enjoyed EXPLORE, but I hope that you read it in the coming months and notice a significant rise in the quality, content, and depth that you will find. It’s my personal mission. I hope that the coming summer blesses you with memories, sunshine, and smiles. While we all may say that the weather in the Hill Country is perfect, we all truly enjoy summer more than any other season. To be out on a picnic beneath some huge oak tree, watching the kids splash in the river, and feeling the breeze is something that makes you feel alive. And focused. And dreamy. And, if you’re lucky, somebody will whisper. Smiling, Benjamin D. Schooley

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April 18 – May 10 KERRVILLE: “Thunderbox Road”. Traveling exhibit of 12 outhouses (thunderboxes) showcasing the artistic talents of 12 of the top artists in the Hill Country is displayed. The Thunderboxes will be auctioned May 9. Museum of Western Art’s pavilion. For more information please visit the website at www.ThunderboxRoad.com. May 1, 8, 15, 22 BANDERA: Rodeo. Enjoy the thrill of bull riding and favorite rodeo events. Includes a calf scramble and mutton busting for children. Twin Elm Guest Ranch. For more information please call (830) 796-3628 or visit the website at www.twinelmranch.com May 2 BANDERA: Market Day. Arts & crafts show is held on the Courthouse Square. Downtown Main Street. For more information please call (800) 3643833, email [email protected] , or visit the website at www.banderacowboycapital. com. BOERNE: Cibolo Songs and Stories. Concert under the stars at the Cibolo Nature Center featuring John Focke. For more information please call (830) 249-4616. May 2 – 3 FREDERICKSBURG: Texas Outdoor Family Workshop. Teaches families all the basic outdoor skills they’ll need to enjoy a great overnight camping experience. Learn basic outdoor skills such as camping and outdoor cooking and get basic instruction on fishing skills, kayaking and how to use a GPS unit. Reservations required. Enchanted Rock State Natural Area. For more info please call (512) 389-8903 or (830) 685-3636. May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 BANDERA: Cowboys on Main. Includes a Western display in front of the Bandera County Courthouse with strolling musicians on Bandera’s Main Street. 1 – 4 pm. Downtown Main Street. For more information please call (800) 364-3833,

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email [email protected] , or visit the website at www.banderacowboycapital.com. May 2, 9, 23, 30 SPRING BRANCH: Nature Adventures 101. Explore the wonders of the natural world found in the park, from the bugs flying above the fields to the critters that reside in the beautiful Guadalupe River. Guadalupe River State Park. For more information please call (830) 438-2656 or visit the website at www.honeycreekfriends.com. May 3 BANDERA: St. Stanislaus Parish Festival. Includes a meal, children’s activities, music, auction, entertainment and more. Mansfield Park. For more information please call (830) 460-4712 or visit the website at www.stanislausfest.com. May 4 – 5 KERRVILLE: The 5 Browns. Five brothers and sisters, all piano virtuosos who are products of the prestigious Julliard School, take the stage with their five Steinways. Kathleen C. Cailloux Theater, 901 Main Street. For more information please call (830) 896-9393 or visit the website at www.symphonyofthehills.org. May 7 – 9, 14 – 17, 21 – 24 BULVERDE: Features compelling memories of the grand matriarch of an old Southern family and the profound influence she had on her oldest grandson’s life. S.T.A.G.E., 1300 Bulverde Rd. For more information please call (830) 438-2339 or email [email protected]. May 8 SPRING BRANCH: Full Moon Meander. Join the Park Interpreter for a walk along the river and trails of the park guided by the light of the full moon. Guadalupe River State Park. For more information please call (830) 438-2656 or visit the website at www.honeycreekfriends.com. May 9 BOERNE: Historic Homes Tour. Enjoy a selfguided tour of six beautifully restored historic homes in and around Boerne. For more information

please call (830) 249-7277 or visit the website at www.visitboerne.org. FREDERICKSBURG: Founders Day. Celebrates the 163rd anniversary of Fredericksburg’s founding. Includes a wreath laying, live music and refreshments. Vereins, Kirche, Marktplatz & Pioneer Museum, 325 W. Main. For more information please call (830) 997-2835 or visit the website at www.pioneermuseum.com . May 9 BOERNE: 2nd Saturday Art & Wine. On Second Saturdays the galleries of Boerne host joint openings from 5 – 8 pm. Come out and enjoy a glass of wine and the latest offerings on the Boerne Art Scene. KERRVILLE: Original Team Roping. Enjoy watching cowboys competing in this popular event. Hill Country Youth Exhibit Center, 3705 Hwy. 27 E. For more information please call (806) 499-3584 or visit the website at www.otrc.net . May 9 – 10 BOERNE: Market Days. Includes dozens of vendors from all over Texas, arts & crafts, antiques, collectibles, unusual items and great food. Main Plaza. For more information please call (830) 249-5530 or (210) 844-8193, or visit the website at www.mainstreetinboerne.com. May 12 BOERNE: “Live at the Library”. Featuring Hot Sauce. 6 – 8 pm. Refreshments will be served. For more information please call (830) 249-3053. May 15 KERRVILLE: Bowfire. This talented group of string players takes the audience on a musical journey that moves through jazz, classical, bluegrass, Celtic, rock, Gypsy, world, Texas swing, and Ottawa Valley/Cape Breton styles. Cailloux Theater, 910 Main Street. For more information please call (830) 896-9393, email [email protected] or visit the website at www.kpas.org. May 15 – 17 FREDERICKSBURG: Trade Days. For more

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information please call (830) 990-4900 or visit the website at www.fbgtradedays.com. May 16 BOERNE: Art in the Park. Focuses on immersion in art and nature. For more information please visit the website at www.ciboloarts.org. BOERNE: Cibolo Songs and Stories. Concert under the stars at the Cibolo Nature Center featuring Living History Festival: Boerne Village Band; Luevano Mariachis: Jalapeno Heaven Conjunto Band. For more information please call (830) 249-4616. BOERNE: Living History Festival - Along the Cibolo. Come take part in the Living History Festival with events such as Local Story Telling & Oral History, Vintage Baseball, Re-enactors, Cultural Music, Food and Art! For more information please call (830) 249-4616. BOERNE: Audrey Auld in concert. Doors open at 6 pm, concert begins at 7 pm. Pot luck at 6:30 pm. Alamo Fiesta RV Resort on IH-10. For more information please visit the website at www. houseconcertshillcountry.com. May 16 – 17 GRUENE: Old Gruene Market Days. More than 100 vendors offer uniquely crafted items, collectibles and packaged Texas foods. 10 am – 5 pm. For more information please call (830) 832-1721 or visit the website at www. gruenemarketdays.com. FREDERICKSBURG: Roots Music Concert. Features bluegrass/newgrass. 6 – 10 pm. Pioneer Museum, 309 W. Main Street. For more information please call (830) 997-2835. May 17 BOERNE: Blazing Bohemian Guitar Concert. Master guitarist/teacher Cy Torgerson of The Bohemian Guitar Player will showcase his most advanced students plus guest artists at this openair concert at the Main Plaza Gazebo. For more information please call (830) 249-3053. GRUENE: 12th Annual KNBT Americana Music Jam. Celebrates Americana music and features exceptional artists of the genre. Benefits a different local charity each year. Gruene Hall. For more information please call (830) 629-5077 or (830) 606-1601 or visit the website at www. gruenehall.com. May 21 KERRVILLE: Heroes All. Salutes all those who have served to gain and preserve our freedom. Celebration commences with an F-16 fly-by followed by an all-American meal of hot dogs, lemonade and ice cream. Includes an outdoor

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concert and fireworks. Bank of the Hills, 1075 Junction Hwy. For more information please call (830) 895-2265 or visit the website at www. bankofthehills.com. May 21 – June 7 KERRVILLE: Kerrville Folk Festival. This Texas Hill Country based international songwriter’s festival features more than 100 songwriters and their bands. Includes concerts, arts & crafts, kid’s concerts, food and camping. Quiet Valley Ranch. For more information please call (830) 257-3600 or (800) 435-8429 or visit the website at www. kerrvillefolkfestival.com. May 21 – June 28 KERRVILLE: A reflection of area camp history featuring the 2009 Hall of Fame inductees. Kerr Arts & Cultural Center, 228 Earl Garrett. For more information please call (830) 895-2911 or visit the website at www.kacckerrville.com. May 22 KERRVILLE: Wine & Beer Tasting. Includes tastings, food, music and dancing. Begins at 6 pm. River Star Arts & Events Center, 4000 Riverside Drive. For more information please call (830) 896-5711 or visit the website at www.tacef.com. May 22 – 23 FREDERICKSBURG: Crawfish Festival. Enjoy Louisiana style music and food – crawfish, jambalaya, boudin, red beans and rice, of course, some Texas favorites too. Includes the second annual gumbo cook-off, horseshoe and washer pitching, arts & crafts, fun children’s area with jumping castles, face painting and rock wall. 6 pm – Midnight on Friday and 11 am – Midnight on Saturday. Downtown – Market Square. For more information please call (866) 839-3378 or visit the website at www.tex-fest.com/crawfish. May 22 – 24 KERRVILLE: Texas Masters of Fine Art & Craft. Exhibits work by 20 professional artists and craftspeople from across Texas. Noon – 8 pm on Friday, 10 am – 8 pm on Saturday, and 10 am – 6 pm on Sunday. Y.O. Ranch Resort Hotel, 2033 Sidney Baker. For more information please call (214) 328-6382. KERRVILLE: Hill Country Quilt Guild’s Show “A Pigment of My Imagination”. More than 200 quilts are displayed along with wearable and fiber arts displays, boutique of handmade items, opportunity quilt, and fabric and notion vendors. 10 am – 6 pm on Friday and Saturday and Noon – 4 pm on Sunday. Edington Gymnasium, Schreiner University, 2100 Memorial Blvd. For more information please call (830) 257-2752 or (830)

896-6522, email [email protected] , or visit the website at www.hillcountryquiltguild. com. May 23 BLANCO: Learn to Fish Family Fishing Day. Children become certified Junior Anglers by learning basic fishing skills and safety at the river through games, booths and help from fishing experts. 2 – 4 pm. Blanco State Park. For more information please call (830) 833-4333. May 23 – 25 KERRVILLE: Official Texas State Arts & Crafts Fair. Features the work of 200 Texas artists, Texas culinary arts exhibitors, exciting art demonstrations and exhibitions, art activities for youth, continuous live entertainment on three stages, and great food in a beautiful Texas Hill Country setting. River Star Arts & Events Park, 4000 Riverside Drive. For more information please call (830) 896-5711, email [email protected] , or visit the website at www. theartoftexas.com. May 25 BOERNE: Boerne Concert Band Memorial Day Performance. 7 pm. Main Plaza. For more information please call (830) 249-9511, ext. 1181, option 5, 3, or visit the website at www.ci.boerne. tx.us/parks. May 26 BOERNE: Life after Oak Wilt. Mark Duff from the Texas Forest Service will visit the Boerne Public Library to give an informational program on Oak Wilt. 6 pm. Refreshments will be served. May 29 BOERNE: Movie in the Park. Madagascar II. After Dark. For more information please call (830) 249-9511, ext. 1181, option 5, 3, or visit the website at www.ci.boerne.tx.us/parks. May 30 BANDERA: Funtier Day Parade. Features rodeo cowboys, trail ride groups, antique cars and gaily decorated floats. Begins at 11 am. Main Street Bandera. For more information please call (800) 364-3833, email [email protected], or visit the website at www.banderatex.com. May 30 – 31 BLANCO: Texas Outdoor Family Workshop. Teaches families all the basic outdoor skills they’ll need to enjoy a great overnight camping experience. Learn basic outdoor skills such as camping and outdoor cooking and get basic instruction on fishing skills, kayaking and how to use a GPS unit. Reservations required. Blanco State Park. For more information please call (512) 389-8903 or (830) 833-4333.

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I recently opened a magazine that is published in San Antonio, but delivered sporadically to Boerne. It’s a lifestyle/ arts type magazine. Well, they had an article that made me chuckle. It was about Boerne and its live music scene. That wasn’t the funny part, it was the title of the article: “Boerne Doesn’t Close at Dark” and had a subtitle about how Boerne’s live music scene is just rocking. Now, along with anyone that has ever lived in this area, I know that Boerne’s live music scene is downright lousy. We do have some live music played, but it’s not a scene that has much of a following. However, every once in a while, we are blessed with an event that reminds us of the potential for our local music scene. Cy Torgerson, owner of Boerne’s Bohemian Guitar Player, is hosting his annual “Summer Kickoff Show” on May 17 from 3-5pm at, aptly, Boerne’s Town Square. Torgerson, a lifelong musician with the heart of a teacher, uses the opportunity to encourage his students to get on stage and experience true live music. “With my students I wanted to not only teach guitar but emphasize on ‘live’ performance. It is also as important to learn how to act in a band setting. A band is a group effort. It teaches how to work with others and builds self esteem and confidence. With emphasis on group effort, a band is not just about one person.” From his humble shop right behind the Boerne Public Library, Torgerson takes a student at any skill level and helps

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them hone their skills. Utilizing several teachers, Torgerson and his team have built one of the more unique guitar instruction studios in the Hill Country. Other teachers include Jorge Palomo who spent two years at Berkley in Boston, working on a music degree and is currently teaching guitar/bass and playing professionally as a performer in several bands and as a solo artist. He is from a musical family as his dad was a musician. Sam Snavely, bass teacher, is in a gifted and talented program of the North East School of Arts and is also a member of the NESA orchestra. He also performs regularly with a number of live bands. Finally, Samantha Givens, vocal coach, sings and helps students with vocals for the performance shows. She started out as first chair in the Texas All State Women’s Choir and then went on to spend 2 years in Webster University in St. Louis studying at the music theater conservatory as well as being in the vocal Jazz performance program. Since she has been back, she has performed in a number of musical theater productions as well as performing with various live bands. The future of our live music scene will be sculpted by our younger musicians. Without them, and the change they will bring, Boerne’s live music scene will continue to be subpar. Come out in May and encourage the budding artists to follow their dreams.

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The Master Bedroom and Master Bath together are often referred to as the Master Suite. This is one of the most important and most overlooked areas of the home. It always amazes me how much you can tell about a relationship just by the appearance of the Master Suite. These two rooms are considered the most intimate areas of the home and therefore reflect our appreciation or non-appreciation of our most personal relationships – those being with our spouses or partners. I know it is a sensitive subject, so I’ll do my best to dance around it with grace. As usual we are going to begin by asking ourselves a few questions in order to really make a realistic and unemotional observation of how best to stimulate a positive change in our environment. Questions: Do you feel like you are being taken for granted in your relationship? Do you collapse into your bed at night, exhausted, with no energy left to give to your spouse? Yet somehow you both find the strength to turn on the TV and search through hundreds of programs to watch mindless, violent or controversial television shows? Does your nightly routine include a final show of affection toward your significant other, or are you setting yourselves up for a restless night of sleep by not even acknowledging the person who is sleeping beside you as your turn the light off and roll away from each other to sleep on opposite sides of the bed? As I said these are complicated areas to deal with and they can be full of invisible elephants in your room that continue to affect you through your sleeping and waking hours. They must be confronted and addressed in order to facilitate any significant healing and balance of energy. As your decorating environmental therapist I suggest that you and your partner list the following questions, answer them separately on a piece of paper and also elaborate on each question to further clarify your needs and desires. Then get together and talk about each answer and form a

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plan to create a more stimulating yet soothing environment. In the next issue I’ll discuss how you can implement solutions and remedy any challenge in ways that will meet both of your wants and needs. You will find that just the very act of sincerely appreciating each other’s viewpoint improves your relationship and balances your energies. This exchange of ideas alone begins to create a healthy focus uniting the heart, the eye and all of your senses moving you toward a new physical and emotional state of health and communication. So, before the next issue of Explorer comes out take the time to answer the questions and be ready to take action to create a better bedroom and bathroom based on your mutual desires. Until then, give each other a kiss goodnight and don’t turn on the TV in your bedroom! Bon Decoration! LA LeeAnne Keim is a builder, designer and home remodeler. You can visit her site at keimmartin.com

Questions Regarding the Bedroom: • What are the 3 colors that you find the most soothing? • What 3 colors do you find the most irritating? • What would you rather have on your windows: nothing, shades, draperies or shutters? • When you are sleeping do you need the room to be completely dark? Are there any particular lights that bother you? • Where do you want to have the alarm clock placed? Where is the TV in relationship to the bed? Where is the phone? • Do pet animals sleep with you? Do you have plants or flowers in your bedroom? Do either of you have allergies? • What size would you like your bed to be, and why? • What material would you like your bed to be made out of? Wood? Iron? Four-poster? Platform? Leather or fabric upholstery? • What kind of finish would you like on your bed? • What kind of mattress do you have? Does it sag in the middle? Do you find yourself always rolling to the middle of the bed? How is the firmness of your mattress? What do you prefer? What kind of blanket or comforter do you have on your bed? How heavy is it? How many pillows do you have? What kind of pillows do you sleep on? Are they down filled, foam rubber, combo, other? • Would you rather have carpet on the floor or hardwood? • Do you like to have the ceiling fan on at night? Do you like to sleep with the windows open, or do you like to keep them closed and crank up the AC? • Do you like to read in bed? If so, what kind of lighting do you have to read by? What kind of books do you read in bed? Do you do computer work in bed? Do you eat in bed? Do you play video games in bed? What kind of television shows do you watch before bed? What time do you go to bed?

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Lee Anne Keim has owned her own interior design firm for over 20 years, in 3 different states. She has clients nationally and is the President of Keim & Martin, Ltd. Located at 703B South Main Street in Boerne, TX. 830-249-1552. Keim & Martin, Ltd. Won the 2007 Summit award for Best Interior Design in the category $750K and up, and she also won the 1st Place Award in the National F. Schummacher Dream Bedroom Design Contest. She and her company offer complete design services in addition to custom building new homes. The company’s expertise ranges from blueprint analysis, new construction and remodeling to full scale interior design. You can email any design, remodeling, or building questions you would like to ask her at: [email protected].

Questions Regarding the Bathroom: • Does it bother you if the toilet seat is left up or put down? • How old is your toilet? Are your plumbing fixtures worn or dated? • Is your shower tile dated? Does it have dirty or moldy looking grout? • What kind of shower door do you have? Do you want a shower door? • Would you like a hand shower, rain shower, steam shower, sauna? • What kind of lighting do you have over your sink(s)? • What kind of mirrors do you have? • Do you have or want a whirlpool or air bubble bath? • What kind of flooring is on your floor? • Do you have enough light to shave? Do you have the right kind of light to put your make-up on? Do you have the ability to sit down while you put your makeup on? • Do you want a TV in your bathroom? • Do you want a FP in your bathroom? • Do you want music in your bathroom? • Would you like a place to sit down in your bathroom? • Would you like a ceiling fan? • Where do you put dirty clothes? Towels? Disposable trash?

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Different Stuff

So You Want Rain?

by Bill Zaner

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We at Different Stuff World Headquarters always keep some of our the community, such folks defined as anybody who can bury a dime in promises*, e.g., last month we told you faithful and somewhat intrepid readers, just before you nodded off, that we would reveal the long-hidden secrets of the ancient and revered Rain Dance, and we will do that. As we all found out in mid-March, the mere MENTION of the Dance caused 2” of the wet stuff to fall in a couple of days after not seeing hardly any moisture around here for a year and a half. So you can easily sense the potency of the Rain Dance, can’t you? The rainmaker ritual originated in the farthest reaches of the southern oceans on a little-known island chain called the Inundates, a barely visible group of coral atolls inhabited by the tattooed Moldy-armpit Tribe, Chief Kalvamalva Fortissimo, aka Big Al the Drencher, being El Jefe. Big Al has agreed, after some months of tedious negotiations, during which you may want to know, we Struffers got well soaked, to describe for us exactly how to complete the ritualistic dance. “Keep ya umbrella handy”, he advises, “it gonna be much wet on you head!” I not gonna show you de much more powerful FLOOD DANCE – It way too much! Da Rain step be OK fa you! (Big Al always talks in exclamation pointed sentences!) The steps, illustrated here, must be executed with vigor by 23 elders of

a forehead wrinkle with no silver showing, by the light of a full moon in the downtown plaza which has been lightly sprinkled with nottoo-fresh duck doots. Men and women alike, the dancers must perform the exact steps, slowly at first, building to a crescendo of feverish wild-eyed jiggling and bouncing to the rhythm of the City Hall noon alarm siren. In addition to the 23 dancers, 86 clappers must form a circle around and pound out an accompanying beat in time with the bare feet of the elders. There will no doubt be some slipping and sliding around on the not-too-fresh duck stuff, but “dat’s all to de good!” says Big Al. The records show that a properly performed Rain Dance will get you some rain sooner or later.** Some examples of successful dancing are, to go back a ways, the South Texas floods of 1998 and 2002, or, even farther back, the deluge in the Hill Country in 1978 – definitely an over enthusiastic performance. (The Elders weren’t as elderly in 1978 – they are now extremely so.) We really need to give it a try, don’t you think? Nothing else is working. *Or, sometimes keep all of our promises. **This Easter Sunday morning, ½ inch of the lovely we stuff fell on my own yard here in Boerne as I was having my green tea, while merely CHECKING my notes on the steps of the Dance.

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As we all watch our little town transform into a mini-metropolis, it’s sad to see some of the original characters of our scene begin to close the curtains. I spent many a Tuesday afternoon in Zaner’s gallery, sipping wine, we disagree), and basically Time goes on, and change is NOT for the better.

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It’s Time for a Good Story

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Americans, and Irish Americans. Period costumes add authenticity that transfers us to an age of pioneers, Buffalo Soldiers, Civil War soldiers and trappers. A stop at the historically recreated Texas Ranger camp will capture the imagination of the young and old alike. Storytelling circles will provide an informal setting to share stories and be entertained. There will be food, animals, games, and contests. The White Sox, Boerne’s vintage base ball team will play a game that will entertain and amuse with 19th century terminology, rules and customs. Watch to see if the Umpire asks the players and spectators for assistance in making calls. Tours of the old Herff home will be conducted and all may venture out to explore the vastness of the farmland and wander to the nearby Cibolo Creek for a dipping of toes. The Living History Festival will be held on Saturday, May 16 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 33 Herff Road in Boerne. For more information about events and times, storytelling opportunities, to participate as a vendor or to volunteer, visit www.cibolo.org or call 830-249-4616. As we look to the future and imagine the possibilities, let us reflect on our multicultural heritage and the lifestyles and landscapes of the pioneers, settlers and ancestors along the Cibolo Creek. It truly is a great story! Several weeks ago while waiting for a community event to begin, my husband and I greeted an elderly man as he took his seat. After exchanging pleasantries, the man remarked that it was his 88th birthday and my husband took that as an invitation to begin an incisive conversation. As we learned about his life in and around Boerne, and travels from serving his country, the frailness of the man disappeared and he sat straighter to recount details that had been tucked away in his memory. In those shared moments we were given a small glimpse of a great story. Later that day I wondered how many great stories are within our reach that we ignore or simply miss because we are unaware or too busy living our lives. Stories lie at the core of human nature and I believe most people enjoy being able to soak up the details that create a visual experience bridging them to a particular place and time in the past, present and future. Family stories are strong links between generations, have supported decade old disagreements and set the stage for many legends and traditions. Over time families and their stories grow and weave into a community with a strong and diverse history creating a foundation for future generations. On May 16, our community has a great opportunity to experience and connect with the heritage that has made Boerne what it is today. The Living History Festival will be a fun and interactive event that will take place at the historic Herff farm and is sponsored by the Cibolo Nature Center, the City of Boerne, the Boerne Public Library, the Hill Country Pan American Chamber of Commerce, Frost Bank and the Agricultural Heritage Museum. The 62 acre Herff farm holds one of the most historic homes in the Boerne area and is the perfect setting to introduce and reacquaint our community to a blend of cultures through music, storytelling and demonstrations of Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, German

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If you’ve visited Boerne, odds are you’ve been to the Dodging Duck Brewhaus. Overlooking the scenic Cibolo Creek, the “Duck” is a staple of local cuisine for citizens and visitors alike. The visitors are drawn to the location, with its great deck and ambiance, and the locals return time and again for some good food and even better beer. As we enter the warmer months, what better time to re-acquaint ourselves with an old friend over a hand-crafted brew at the Duck? I have been to the Duck at least 100 times. Whether it’s for a quick drink after work, or for a special night out, the Duck has always delivered. Heck, my first date with my wife was at the Duck. I kissed her for the first time on the patio. The sun blinded her briefly and I went in for the kill. Mission accomplished. But I digress. Whatever your reason for a visit, you won’t be disappointed. Because of the many trips I’ve made, I’ve had almost every dish available. However, I will speak to some of my favorites, and of course, the BEER. It’s hard for me to review the beer, because by the time you read this, they will have a new offering. Beer selections change frequently, and nearly every visit will bring a new beer. Under the watchful eye of owner Keith Moore, the Duck produces some of the finest beers you’ll find anywhere. With fun names like “Ducktoberfest” and “Lonesome Duck Pale Ale”, the variety is wide-ranging. For me, I’m normally in the mood for a lighter beer or a more stout beer, and make my decision accordingly. Beneath each beer offering is a nice description so you’ll know what you’re choosing.

Truthfully, you can’t go wrong. I’ve never had a beer and thought “This is awful!”. Some are more suited to me than others, but each has its own nuances and flavors that make each a treat. While sipping your suds, order up the pretzel/ sausage/cheese plate. It’s light enough that you can still have dinner later, but enough to give you something to munch on. Or, for something a bit heavier, order up the Cajun Stuffed Mushrooms. Pure decadence. For your main course, you can’t go wrong with the Brewhaus Burger. The burger is as good as you’d expect, but the BREAD is phenomenal. It’s this strange jalapeno-stuffed bun that creates such a great flavor and that goes just perfect with a great swallow of your beer. As an alternative, try the Bitter Batter Shrimp Platter. Tiger shrimp, breaded and fried. Delicioso. Regardless of what you go with, take your time. The Duck is a sort of time warp in many ways. You show up at 4:30 for a beer with friends, you talk, you peoplewatch, dine, and drink some more. The next thing you know it’s past your bedtime. It’s so much fun to sit out on the deck and watch all the bikers (who always look tough and grungy until they walk in and order a glass of white wine), the little kids chasing ducks along the river, and the families picnicking. Enjoy yourself. You’re in the Hill Country.

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I read once, that there are three kinds of people: conformist, activist, and escapist. I will never be a conformist; the very word is offensive to my ears. I have always been an activist, and someday; a day that seems very close, I will be an escapist. In all honesty, I guess I have spent a great deal of my life betraying myself. The mere mention of conformity can send me into night sweats and dry heaves. I often envision the mass of humanity as one endless herd of lemmings marching mindlessly toward a cliff and into the sea. If I could stop one of the lemmings in their tracks and ask them, “Hey, why are you marching toward that cliff?’ I know that it would give me an angry herrumph, and say, “Because, that’s what we do, and why aren’t you?” But, I don’t try to stop the lemmings anymore. Instead, I sit on my rock and watch them pass me by on the way toward oblivion. Oblivion- that is a great word. It sounds like what it means. So if the lemmings, which include many of my dear readers, are marching toward oblivion, toward what is it that they are marching? In fact, I do not think that the cliff or the sea are the oblivion. It is the mindless journey; their very lives or lack there of that constitutes the oblivion. It is moments in time, wasted, lost, and missed, never to return. It is a walk in the forest looking only at their feet. It is the illusion of self-importance and eternal life. The oblivion lies deep inside each of us. The Buddhist teach that we live in an illusion created by our mind. We are never in the moment; the here and now. We spend what passes for our lives planning to live sometime in the future. Then, the future becomes the present, if only for a moment, and we again plan to live, “someday.” “Someday, I’d love to travel.” “Someday, I’d love to be happy.” “Someday, I’d love to love.” “Someday, but not this day; because on this day, I’m too busy, marching.” The Buddhist are right. I once saw a British comedy where a husband and wife were lying in bed, the husband on his back, wide eyed, staring at the ceiling; the wife turned on her side attempting to get to sleep. The husband says to his drowsy wife, “I just realized that nothing is real!” She half-heartedly asked him what he means to say. He says, “If the past doesn’t exist because it is over, and the future doesn’t exist because it hasn’t come yet, and if the moment you are in the moment it becomes the past, nothing really exists!” She gives him an angry herumph, and tells him to go to sleep. She did not understand that he was trying to be, very much awake. The Buddhist are right. I guess I have dodged the earlier comment that I have spent a great deal of my life betraying myself. I guess it is time for me to face the music. The truth is, even though the very idea of the lemmings and their ill fated run makes me want to retch, I have sometimes found myself in the crowd moving in the general direction of the cliff. Sometimes, I can almost hear the cold dark sea just beyond the edge. This lunacy has taken many forms, some excusable, some, not so much. I have held down a “steady job.” You know, the kind where people

pretend kindness while working to undercut each other, fighting like cowardly dogs over scraps of foul meat. The kind of job where you find yourself Zombie like in traffic, hating “life,” knowing that it is the wrong thing to do, but you do it any way because it is expected, and because it is, “what we do.” Then, other times it is like trying to wake from a bad dream. I toss and turn, screaming silently inside, “Wake up! For Gods’ sake, no for your own sake, wake up!” When I do wake up, I am faced with a dilemma. I sit on my rock watching the rest of humanity go by, and it is nice not to be running toward the cliff and oblivion, but I am left with the question, ‘What now?” From my rock, I get closer to myself. My true self can never be a conformist. At least up until this moment, I have always been an activist. I am always the one who stands when others stay seated. I cannot help myself. I have to speak up or step forward when I see an “injustice.” At times, lemmings have asked me to step forward on their behalf, and I have only to look back into the silent, lonely, darkness when the bad times come; and they do come, because you must pay a price for being an activist. This brings me back to my old friend the Buddhist Monk. When I was a child, the Vietnam War was in our face, as it should have been. Our collective faces did not handle it well; we ate our own young rather than putting the blame squarely where it belonged….on the “adults,” lemmings, one and all. I remember seeing a Buddhist Monk as he sat serenely in some distant city square, poured gasoline on himself, and burned himself to death in protest. At that moment in time I wonder, which role did he play? Was he a conformist that followed the thoughts taught to him by others? Was he an activist, choosing to forfeit biological life for his beliefs? As he spent most of that biological life seeking self-enlightenment by excluding all of the outside worlds illusions from that entity that we call a mind, was he an escapist? Like urine in the Mekong River, did the three beings within him mix and mingle? I was seven years old when I watched him burn on a black and white television. Even then, I wondered, what does this mean, to me? Perhaps, as much as he wanted to be an escapist, he just could not help himself. I am left with this. After many battles, over many long forgotten battlefields, I find myself feeling like the Roman General, who just wants to stay in his tent. I wonder why I would continue to fight for the empire that often does not seem worthy of my life. I wonder why I would spend more energy to protect the troops who call my name in time of hardship, and speak it crudely, when I am alone. Make no mistake, as the activist; as the leader, when you stay standing while all others are seated, you are always alone. In that moment, all I want to do is be an escapist. I want to sail away to some distant island. I want to tell the world of lemmings to pass me by. In the end, I put on my tunic, sheath my sword, walk to my tents’ door, and step forward. I just cannot help myself.

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Boerne by Marjorie Hagy

At some point in the 50’s, Dwight D. Eisenhower & the powers that be in this nation’s capitol decided to implement a plan for an interstate highway system for the purpose of high-speed travel in order to quickly deploy military supplies, vehicles and troops from coast to coast and to strategic locations all over the country in case of their being needed in a time of war. That said, the interstate highway system quickly ravaged small town life as we knew it and altered the character of America forever. Don’t get to thinking I’m some home-grown nut who advocates a move to a compound in Idaho where the ‘gubment cain’t get their filthy paws on our god-given automatic weapons and trueblue folks can practice their own dadgum religion with as many wives as they want’; I’m not the second coming of Ted Kazinsky, just a nostalgic old gal who misses a place I barely got a glimpse of in my childhood back in the 70’s. Nobody in the “Me Generation” will know what I’m talking about when I reminisce about a day and age when you could tell the difference between towns because they didn’t all look the same, because a drive on the highway wasn’t a long succession of exit ramps that by law must be surrounded by a Starbucks, a Home Depot and a mall with a Target and a Bed, Bath & Beyond in it, and where a filling station was the place you got your gas and that it might actually have a certain character and not offer at least five different varieties of fast food. Now even my own precious angels (to translate for those who know us: my children) tend to envision my childhood, when they think about me at all which probably isn’t all that often, as a time shrouded in pre-Jurassic mist rising off a young planet when walking erect was all the rage and the parents said it was just a fad and

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couldn’t last. But there WAS a time even before I can remember when highways were small town Main Streets and high-speed travel meant opening up the throttle on old Bessie & revin’ her up to 40 and only hoodlums with DA hairdos went over 60 and put everybody’s lives in to danger by doing it. When Berma-Shave signs and roadside attractions like the World’s Smallest Guitar made the trip and adventure and one couldn’t wait to get to a certain little town that had your favorite restaurant and it wasn’t Subway. When the Eisenhower Highway Act was passed and I10 became an inevitability, the business people in town thought it spelled the end of Boerne, but they envisioned that death a

if a small town didn’t have a highway as its Main Street the town would wither and die from lack of commerce. Imagine that. Remember that music in film strips back in junior high that they used to indicate the bustling city, a kind of busy, guy-with-a-crewcut-blackplastic-glasses-and-a-briefcase-rushing-off-towork-at-the-plant kind of jingle? Play that in your head as you visualize Boerne in the middle of the 20th century, from the time William Kuhlmann the druggist raised eyebrows all over town when he showed up, backfiring and stalling out and shooting ahead by fits and starts in the first motor

whole lot differently than the devouring of our little hometown by the ugly monster of urban sprawl; in the 50s, the prevailing belief was that

buggy to appear in Boerne, until the landscape changed forever when I10 opened for business in 1968. This was a happenin’ place, a main

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drag on Highway 87, the Fredericksburg Road, between San Antonio and points beyond. Highway 87 followed roughly the route that I10 takes now, but lower and more along the path of the access roads, sometimes veering over to the eastward side but mostly where the westbound feeder road is now, along past the Dominion and Fair Oaks and Barkley’s. There was a fairly well-known speakeasy and general den of iniquity call Mountaintop along about where the Rim is now, on the big hill just west of a little quarry run by the Macdonough brothers. At this wayside inn a thirsty traveler could procure a bit of illicit hooch for medicinal purposes and perhaps take a turn with a flapper gal on the saw-dusty dance floor – at least in the early days. When the booze became legal again the thrill of drinking it in a dive eventually paled and later the Mountaintop became a kid’s summer camp, and at some other point was just a plain old dance hall, but it vanished around the time I10 went through. Leon Springs was sort of a blip on the radar, a smattering of houses, a church and a filling station called Rudy’s Corner where you could buy some pretty decent BBQ for the road. The way from San Antonio to our town was a lot longer than it is now – San Antonio didn’t even begin ‘til way past where 410 is now and Callaghan and Fredericksburg Road were out in the country – Fredericksburg Road, you know, Highway 87. Boerne was a good 40, 50 miles northwest, in the Hill Country, and there weren’t any long, ugly tentacles reaching out between the two. It was mostly just farms, all along the way, here and there a rock or a frame farmhouse with a couple of outbuildings, a cistern and a windmill, and other than that just farmland, plowed fields or fallow fields or fields of crop, a windbreak of trees, a stock tank, a sheep barn. I have a photograph here at home that I sometimes get lost in, a snowfall scene from January of 1940 that shows the back of a car headed west towards town and a low wooden sign that says Boerne 11, Fredericksburg 50; it was taken on Highway 87 just past where the traffic light is at Leon Springs and Boerne Stage Road, at Rudy’s Corner. Ahead of the car is a clump of oak trees that still stands, with the bridge over the creek to the right, but what enchants me about this picture is what’s to the left of the car, off past the driver’s side: there’s a wood-post fence, an old farm fence, and past that a snow-covered field, and then a line of oaks in the hazy distance. Big deal. But that’s where I10 is now, where that farmland was. Whoever was driving that car could’ve had no idea that the farm wouldn’t be there forever, that if he wandered out into that field and was beamed forward in time 50 years he would’ve been instantly struck by an 18-wheeler and smashed into atoms. In 1940 the guy probably hadn’t even heard of atoms. Cascade Caverns was a hoppin’ roadside

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attraction advertised all along the road and in the San Antonio papers. The ads say it was 27 miles from SA and they didn’t only offer cave tours but they had BBQ, a dance pavilion, a gift shop, a swimming pool (where a lot of parties were held that I personally attended, including the end-of-the-year middle school band picnic one year) and a campground. You finally came into Boerne, over the crest of one hill and winding down under the wing of the next. Boerne was hidden in a fold of the hills, and you entered it with a reaction of pleasant surprise, a sensation one letter writer to the Boerne Star described as an “ooh-aah” felling. It was a pretty little town, a little, unspoiled country town, the key to the hills. It wasn’t a suburb or a bedroom community. People who worked in San Antonio lived in San Antonio, but for a very few exceptions, and people whose lives were in Boerne lived and worked in Boerne, their folks were usually buried here like they expected to be when the end came and they expected the end to come in Boerne. These were two very separate places, Boerne and San Antonio, and worlds apart. Coming into town, the Shumard farm was on your right, a beautiful place with a creek running through it, with a rock farmhouse and outbuildings and rock fences. You can still see some of those things in some form – sitting in the parking lot of Walmart. Buck’s Courts was further down on your left, where Frost Bank is. Tourist courts are a relic of the old highway – these started springing up in the 20’s and gangsters loved to hole up in them but not in any around here that I know

of, although that would’ve been fun. They were little cabins built close to one another around a central court, usually, and the precursor to motor hotels, or mo-tels, where the wayfarer could pull his car right up to the door and keep an eye on the old Edsel loaded to the gills with travel gear. There were tourist courts all over Boerne – they were indispensible on the road in a time when there were no all-night gas stations and no pay-outside-with-your-credit-card pumps and if you were fixin’ to run out of gas you better stop somewhere for the night. There was a tourist camp on the hill just south of Boerne where the Alamo Fiesta RV Park is now, a resort called the Cactus, and one on Oak Park Street called the Shady Nook Tourist Courts. Oak Park was a shortcut from Highway 87 over to Hwy. 475, what you and I know as Hwy. 46. The Shady Nook Tourist Courts are still extant, with some alterations, and are now the Oak Park Apartments. There was the Boerne Motel right on Main Street on the southeast corner of Veteran’s Park and where the Hilltop Nursing Home is was the Hilltop Hotel and Tourist Courts, the cottages having been built to lodge tuberculins when the place was a TB sanitarium after World War I. And Buck’s Courts was the first establishment you encountered when you got into town. Boerne’s old police chief and lone policeman, one Mr. Earl Buck, used the lay in wait at his own Buck’s Courts in his own vehicle in the absence of a city-provided car, a chartreuse-and-black Mercury, not the most subtle vehicle for undercover police work, but that wasn’t

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the point – Buck wanted to be seen, and half the fun was the intimidation as he pulled out behind the unwary stranger, menacingly, and followed them through town. The message was, ‘you better watch your step in this town fella. None of your hot-rod Lincoln business out here among decent Godfearin’ folks, hoodlum’. Chief Buck was zealous in the execution of his duties, and literally generations of Boerneites came of age tormenting the man; Earl Buck lived to a very ripe old age and ended his career as a JP here in town. There were filling stations all over town – all of the commercial buildings you see sitting catty-cornered to Main Street were filling stations, including where the Guadalajara Diner is, across the street from the Square, and the OST Service Station on Main Street in front of WA Automotive, and the Log Cabin filling station over on Main & Oak Park. Also on Oak Park at Schweppe Street was the Rackley filling station, that cool old red brick building that’s still there and has been tantalizingly abandoned for years. For the hungry wanderer the choice of eateries included Pete and Lupe Sotello’s Mexican restaurant on South Main in the building where Subway is, the Elite Café (pronounced, for some reason, e-LITE), downtown just south of the Main Plaza, and on North Main Hugman’s later Pat’s Café up around where Dreiss Insurance is and the Live Oak Café where Mague’s is now. Bars – there were definitely those, too, notably The Brass Rail, which building is now Bumdoodler’s (the best sandwich shop in Texas) and where the brass rail of the title was still in place until 10 years or so ago to the detriment of one’s ankles while ordering. And if you wanted the kids to get out and burn off some energy along the way you could stop by the Cibolo at River Road and park right on the banks – there weren’t any curbs there all the way up ‘til I was in high school, and you just pulled your car in and parked around

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the picnic tables. By the way, back in my youth the River Road Park, as it’s known now, wasn’t a place to take the darlings for a picnic; it was a notorious haunt for a rough crowd who smoked and drank and generally made law-abiding folk nervous, and woe to you if your parents ever thought you’d been hanging around there. Also there was Main Plaza, with the fountain and a merry-go-round and swings. There was a teenybopper hangout, the Bleu Boy, up where Sely’s is now. This isn’t meant to be a comprehensive list of all the places that were here back then, just a sample of what the traveler through town in that bygone time would’ve seen as he passed through. Main Street, even though it was THE major highway from San Antonio westward, was so amazingly different then than it is now – this was a sleepy little place and I often heard it said when I was a kid that they rolled up the sidewalks at 5:00, and they did. Traffic was very, very light, and one could have lain down in the middle of Main Street for, as Garrison Keilor put it, as long as anyone would want to lay down in a street. There was one stoplight, at River Road. There were drainage ditches along the sides of Main Street deep enough for a kid to play in without being seen from the other side of the street. It was safe for a kid to play alongside Main Street, Highway 87. Now would be the time where I start complaining about what I10 looks like now, and what its existence has done to this town, about how all the predictions that I heard during the 80’s, of how San Antonio would eventually meet up with and engulf Boerne, are coming true, are for the most part true already – but do I even need to do that? You’ve all driven that stretch lately and you can see for yourselves that it’s not 40 miles to SA anymore and that Callaghan Road isn’t out in the country and neither is Boerne. We’re not nestled into a pleat of the verdant hills like we were in the 50’s but approached through

the inevitable mess of ugly urban sprawl and to someone passing by on 10 we’re not a little gem, an unexpected pleasure, but just another exit ramp with a Taco Bell. But there was a time when it was different and I long for that lost time, when telephone poles stretched alongside the roads and you might get stuck behind a tractor on the highway, when if you could beg your parents irritatingly enough they just might stop at the Snake Farm if only to shut you up, where there was little enough traffic and just enough time to read the Burma-Shave signs, when Boerne was a good 40 miles and at least a light year away from San Antonio. That must’ve been the good old days.

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Mad at Me I’ve written a bunch of these articles for EXPLORE, so I’m not sure if I’ve covered this particular subject or not. Even if I have, that’s ok, because it continues to pull heavily on my heart and has proven to be quite the monster for me. I am quite stubborn, and assume that by confronting an issue, that should immediately “solve” the problem and I can move on. However, FORGIVENESS, has proven to be quite a foe. It’s quite a foe because I don’t want to forgive. I want to sit here and be mad and harbor that anger and put it on my back and carry it with me, ready to whip it out when needed. I’m cool with that. I’m cool with smiling all day long, but knowing that down deep, I’m angry. It just seems easier that way. Dumping the backpack full of anger sounds like work, because I know that it will involve me making changes, and sometimes I just don’t feel like changing. I don’t mean to sound so bitter, but I think I’m frustrated. I’ve prayed, prayed, and prayed some more, but my heart refuses to soften and I’m exhausted with the

constant internal “huggy-feely” discussions I must have with myself. But, as much as I’d like to just give up, I know I can’t. The object of my anger is mainly ME. Maybe that’s why it’s so hard to deal with. Sure, there are some extraneous issues that I’m angry about, but those pale in comparison to my frustrations with myself. I’m not self-loathing, I just get disappointed in myself. It’s not any particular failures, it’s an overall sense of “missing the mark” that I can blame on no one but myself. There’s nobody to point the finger at but me. Being a Christian is a strange trip sometimes. We hear over and over again about SIN, and how we’re all doomed to hell unless we live a clean life, but then we hear all about grace. Sometimes I think the church would break out into a brothel if we spent too much time learning about grace. God tells us that once a sin is confessed, He forgets it happened. I’m not sure that’s such a great thing for people like me to know. Heck, if that’s the case, I’d sin all day long, pray for forgiveness at bedtime, and be ready for the next day. I know that’s not the point, but it’s still a bit confusing. My wife has been teaching me about forgiveness. She tells me that we all have our “walk” in this life, and that it leads us in every direction imaginable. A lot of it is unfortunate because our walk can be dictated by poor decisions, and sin, but in the end, it’s part of what makes us who we are. And, of course, we are supposed to learn from it. Ugh. I like what she tells me, but it’s still hard for me to internalize and move forward. If my “walk” takes me down a wrong turn on a street and I run over a bunch of nails and get a flat tire, I’m now irritated with myself for making the wrong turn. I don’t take the moment to shrug my shoulders, laugh it off, and call it an “adventure”. My wife does things like that. I love my wife. And that’s where I am, and have been. I’ve made a lot of wrong turns in my life, and it’s taken me

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