Childhood Homes

The places I lived weren’t much, but…

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I was too young to remember much about my first childhood home. Much of what I recall comes from pictures and stories my folks told me.

We lived in a small neighborhood of a dozen or so houses in an area we called “the hill.” Why did we call it that? Getting to our house from the small community of Susanville, a mile’s walk away, involved going up or down a substantial…