Gardenfall [Kubota Garden, Seattle] Holga 120N

25 Random Things, Continued:

8) I did not spend most of my senior year of high school going to class. I spent most of it traveling around in an old VW van with my older boyfriend, Richie Williams, traveling to West Coast rock climbing places like Squamish, Leavenworth, and Smith Rocks. Rich had climbed Mt. McKinley with my dad, so for whatever reason, my parents trusted him. When I did go to class, I only went to music classes. I barely graduated, because towards the end of the last semester, I was failing American Government, but I signed for the certified letter the school sent my mom, made plans with the teacher for remediation, and managed to walk through graduation with my class, 1987. By the time mom found out I almost didn't graduate, it was too late to punish me. I did get in a lot of good rock climbing. (Oh, and it turns out that my parents were right to trust Rich, because aside from being a very safe climber, we never did have sex, because I was pretty much a "good" bad girl).

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