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												when I was young, I rode 
											a bus to school every day.  
												the bus route went through 
												a part of town that had 
												been demolished for a 
												new highway, but the 
												highway had never been 
											built.  so there were steps, 
												driveways, street signs 
												and trees, but no houses. 
											 
												it was just empty, which 
											fascinated me.  sometimes 
												I would see homeless people 
												walking around in this demo- 
												lished area, and I would 
												pretend that they used to 
												live in one of the houses that 
												was gone, but now they just 
												wandered around where they 
												used to live - like ghosts 
												searching for their lost homes. 
											 
												it was a bleak daydream. 
											 
												day after day I stared at this. 
												no one else my bus cared or 
											thought this was interesting.  
												I'm an architect now; maybe 
											this is why.  later, after I had 
												moved away, the highway was 
												built, and filled one emptiness 
												with another. 
											 
											 
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