Story of my life

Memories of childhood part 1

To start off this might be boring. This is all I can remember from childhood. 

I was born in Tucson, AZ. I moved a lot and still do. When I lived in New York I had made a few friends in school. Two of them I remember well. Let's call them Sun and Natalia. Sun was the one friend I did almost everything with, we were together a lot. At some point in time she invited me over to her house. When I was young there were these things called "Woopie cusions" me and Sun played with one when I was at her house. It was slow to get air so she blew into it. Obviously spit would get into it. 

Eventually she had to use the bathroom. When she was in there I was messing with the woopie cusion and over time when we were messing with it, the spit had caused a wet spot on the bed. When she came back and saw it she thought it was pee. Sun accused me of peeing on her bed, I tried to explain that it was spit but she ignored me and went to tell her mom. At that point I was in tears(note I was only around 5 at the time) and her mom had kicked me out of the house. I, of course, wasn't ever allowed back there. 

Now Natalia, we had an on off relationship. One day we would be the best of friends. The next she hated my guts. After a while I had grown used to it and allowed her little "mood swings". I was there for her no matter what. On one of the days she was happy we had fun. (I don't have a lot of memories with Natalia.) We played with balloons popping them with our butts and laughing to our hearts content. 

At some point in time, when I didn't quite know how to swim nor fish, we went fishing. We had a conveniently placed river next to the apartment complex. When we went fishing my friend, I have no memory which one, was told to do something. I didn't know how to peek through my eyelids. So to me it appeared her eyes were closed. She ran across the dock to retrieve the item. When I needed to do something, I fell in at that time I had some kinda "magic" and could see through my eyelids. So I looked around me in the water and splashed around. Someone noticed this and pulled me out. 

I was handed to my mother and given this gum, the gum had a design on the wrapping that resembled zebra print. My mom licked the side with the zebra print and placed it on my arm. I was given a temporary tattoo. 

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Another time there was a fire. It happened at night so I was asleep. When I woke up I was faced away from the flames. My mom noticed I had woken up and tried to get me back to sleep. Of course, like any other child, I asked "Mommy? What's going on?". I looked to see that the entire apartment building that Natalia lived in was in flames. Natalia and others lived(I believe again my memory is fuzzy). 

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Then there was a flood, on a different night. I was, again, asleep. When I woke up I was placed on the couch which was placed by the door. I stood wanting to help even if I was tired, my socks got soaked but I helped anyway. 

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Eventually we moved.

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