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Just a Pipe
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. . . as in “Love me, love my dog,” which may well be before your time. The strip of photos up there? Ancestors. I like to think the sepia of the guy with the mustache is the Mahaffy brother who went out West and came back with nothing but a six-gun and the clothes on his back. Oh, me? I’m old enough, I guess. Born in ‘39; you do the math.
Mom told me, after I’d been in the Navy a few years, that I came about by accident — because Pop had bought a matched pair of clarinets. And was excited about it, you see.
Right.
We won’t go into the Daedalus bit (Portrait of the Artist) where he astounds us with his earliest memory (which was, as I recall, peeing his pants). Suffice it to say, I had a really wonderful childhood. My older brother and sister had terrible ones. My younger sister, a genius, also had a wonderful childhood.
Well, that’s that. Now what?
No, really; it was wonderful. Pop, Mom, and the four kids — and sometimes Grandma . . . read more
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