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<\/a><\/center>There’s something underneath him as if he were at one time mounted on a pole or something like that. He’s heavy…made of solid metal except for those gleaming red eyes. Grandma gave him to me in the mid-80s, and he’s either been on the shelf above mom’s sink, or in her display case since then.<\/p>\nDad brought back, from Japan, a pair of Kimono’d figurines.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/center><\/a><\/center>(The sword hors d’oeuvres picks were from Greece (as is the wine decanter behind the male figure) when dad was in the Navy.\u00a0 I gave him the Cherished Teddy Sailor for Father’s day about 15 years ago.)<\/p>\nWhen I was in High School, I ended up having to drop out of AP Algebra and take Algebra III at a local college. I helped a Chinese lady with her English, and she presented me with this watercolour. This would have been either fall 1984 or spring 1985, but she painted it in June 1983. I still remember the other option was a clown on a unicycle with balloons, but this more captured the Lucy I knew. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n My room is pretty much as it was when I lived at my parents house, with a few minor changes. I was big into unicorns and suncatchers in high school:<\/p>\n Finally, remember my logo? This one?<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/center>The feathers were from Ohio — a cousin, if I recall correctly.<\/p>\n