To the States I’ve Lived

Since I was young, I’ve been moving every year and lived in 4 states and 3 countries. My strange experiences in each place has become the way I remembered about the location. I still have friends in each state and I always end up telling these weird memories to my friends.

We Had a Neighborhood Croc

Enter your text here...Our apartment was across Disneyland, giving my family a free view of the fireworks every night. When the Fourth of July arrived, my family was unamused as we were used to seeing the beautiful view. The strange Florida norm and stereotype was that our neighborhood had a crocodile and I would always wonder if an unfortunate dogot too close to it.

Tornado Shreds a Tree and Makes a Girl Scream

During recess in 2nd grade, a boy gave me a love bug. Love bugs are disgusting creatures that mate by connecting their butts, so I naturally started to cry. Later that year, we were evacuating from a tornado. I remember seeing a tree get shredded by the tornado. While we were stuck on the freeway, I made the car ride pleasant by yelling my signature phrase, “We’re going to DIE!”

I Saw 2 Trolley Full of Furries During a Christian Beach BBQ

Our Christian Church had a beach barbeque beginning of the school year with the motto “100 lbs of meat, 100 new friends.” As my friends and I were waiting for the meat to be cooked, we realized there was a furry gathering there, and then two trolleys full of furries passed by. We hid behind a tree to peek at them and one

of them waved at us from the trolley.

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