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Date Posted: 19:42:30 06/04/11 Sat
Author: CC
Author Host/IP: 184-78-59-126.chi.clearwire-wmx.net / 184.78.59.126
Subject: Re: Chainsaw Charlie
In reply to: Tom Sawyer 's message, "Chainsaw Charlie" on 16:25:56 06/04/11 Sat

No, there is only one 1740 Bella Vista in the country (either Ave or St - I could never figger out which it was).

My dad was up in a tree by the green house with a chainsaw, loping off overhanging branches that had encroached upon the greenhouse sun. The chainsaw slipped and he cut halfway through his leg, hit the femoral artery. My mother called the ambulance, threw me at the neighbors across the street, and took off with my father. This was about 6:45pm EST and they arrived at the hospital at 7pm (which would be midnight in England). I guess at some point he had died, right around 7, but they revived him and he spent a couple months in the hospital. The neighbors were my foster family for a while.

They said the first night I just kept looking at them quizzically (the Yates had very, very dark skin) as if
I was thinking "Alright, y'all look really different, but whatever. Which one of you has the tit? Well bring it to me already - chop chop." The told me they brought me a bottle and all I did was scream and throw up on them. They always had a hoot pushing me around town in my pram. Everyone would ask them where they got the white baby. They finally just started telling people they got me out of a clearance bin at Shillito's.

Dad is fine. He still walks with a pronounced limp, but he is a crotchedy old bastard and turning 75 in July. It was just weird...the timing.

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