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Pulling Up Stakes

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Utne Reader March / April 2007
Frances Lefkowitz, from the Sun 
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We arrived between midnight and morning, both too late and too early to wake up the friends whose house we would stay at while we looked for a place to live. My dad parked on the street, on a block with more empty lots than houses, under the branches of a huge metal radio tower. My mother climbed in the back with us, my father stretched out on the front seat, and the five of us slept until a cop banged his fist on the truck window to wake us up and tell us there was no camping on city streets and we had to move on.

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This essay is part of a forthcoming book, How to Have Not: A Memoir, by Frances Lefkowitz, FrancesLefkowitz.net. Excerpted from the Sun (Nov. 2006). Subscriptions: $36/yr. (12 issues) from Box 469061, Escondido, CA 92046; www.thesunmagazine.org.

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