{"id":26642,"date":"2019-07-31T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26642"},"modified":"2019-08-10T18:14:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T22:14:47","slug":"you-are-there-1973-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/31\/you-are-there-1973-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU ARE THERE: 1973 PART 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cleveland was<\/strong> <\/span>a hell for me last month. But not a bad hell. My mother lined up dates for me. The dates were with daughters of my mother\u2019s friends. I took girls to bars and ordered 7&7s. That was my booze repertoire: 7&7.<\/p>\n

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I got feedback about the dates through back channels — info my mother gleaned at bridge games. Some girls liked me, some didn\u2019t. One girl thought I was \u201ca little weird.\u201d<\/p>\n

She<\/em> was weird! She had no business dragging me through a military courtroom\u00a0 — her dad’s den with World War II medals on the wall. “What are your plans? What do you do?” I wasn’t dating him<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s an apricot sour? That’s what I want to know. The daughter ordered that at the bar.<\/p>\n

Right now<\/strong><\/span> I’m in Bodega Bay, California, sitting on the dock. A friend from college works at the marine lab here. I\u2019m eating squid. Or maybe it\u2019s a big snail. Wastin\u2019 time?<\/p>\n

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2019 update: I stayed about a month in California and left for Latin America. I hitched and rode buses from Tijuana to Colombia. I stayed in Colombia a couple months, teaching English. In early 1974 I returned to Cleveland. My autobio: I Stayed in Cleveland<\/em>.
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Dunk A Feli \/ Funk A Deli \/ Yiddishe Cup plays an outdoor concert 7 pm Thurs., Aug 15, in University Heights, Ohio.\u00a0 Walter Stinson Community Park, 2313 Fenwick Road. Used to be a school site — Northwood. You can bring beer and wine to the show. And hopefully there will be free ice cream bars, too. We’ll play klezmer and soul music and a combination of the two.<\/span><\/p>\n

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