bironic: Neil Perry gazing out a window at night (tar pit mammoth)
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7. Kindergarten

When I was five or six, my father needed to go to L.A. on business, so my family took a trip there. We visited the La Brea Tar Pits museum. Inside were exhibits on the pits, life-sized models of woolly mammoths and animations of extinct animals deep in the tar, straining to pull free. Outside, you could walk up to a railing in cement over a squared-off fossilized tar pit far below. I remember not wanting to go close to the edge, afraid I would fall in. My parents tell me I was terrified I would get stuck in the tar.

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Date: Jan. 8th, 2007 09:55 pm (UTC)
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Yeah. I looked up photos of it last night (don't know why that didn't occur to me sooner) and saw what it's like there. It's pretty shallow, but the life-size mammoths and oil slick on top makes me feel less stupid for being afraid of falling in.

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