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My parents didn’t really know what halloween was – they didn’t understand why you’d waste a perfectly good gourd carving it up when you could cook it for soup. So when I got my very first pumpkin on a pumpkin patch visit in kindergarten I was ecstatic!!! I couldn’t wait to carve it, or roast the seeds (even though I didn’t have a clue on how to do either being that I was only 5 yo). I admired my beautiful pumpkin for a few days as it sat on our kitchen table on display. I couldn’t wait to carve it. A day or two later, I came home from school and the pumpkin was GONE. My mother had cut it up, took out its guts, and cooked it up in a stew soup. My beautiful pumpkin was gone, the unroasted seeds in the trash. I was so sad. She didn’t get it. I protested that night and refused the soup. Years and years later, I got to carve my real first pumpkin with my boyfriend, and he helped to roast the seeds we collected. Over three decades later, and I had as much fun pumpkin carving as I would have at the age of five. The simple things in life are worth experiencing, no matter how long it takes.
dgong's Life List
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1. Move back to California
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2. Live in San Francisco with my love
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3. Quit job
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4. Get better job
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5. See fireworks with my sweetheart
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6. Get married
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7. Not care about what others think of me
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8. Eat healthier
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9. Exercise regularly
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10. Travel to Asia
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11. Travel to Europe
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12. Return to Kanimbla
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13. Visit my dad
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14. Forgive my mother
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15. Hot air balloon ride
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16. Be a good partner
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17. Speak my mind
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18. Be a good aunt
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19. Spend more time with my friends
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20. Mud bath with my sweetheart
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21. Go to my high school prom
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22. Pay off my school loan
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23. Get a king size bed
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