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WATCHING, WRINKLED | Day One: Staging

By First Person Foreign on September 30, 2016

WATCHING AND WRINKLED.
10:32pm That Night:
At the end of Day One in the Peace Corps AKA Staging, I ironed my teal shirt.
In real life I don’t iron. But It’s my last night in America.
My roommate Kathy is a small woman in her 60s, not frail but petite, thin and almost quivery….

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Preparing to Go, How I Leave Ketchikan.

By First Person Foreign on September 27, 2016

Guess what I learned?
You can’t be sad about leaving a place you love while you’re still there loving it.
Try as you might. That don’t make no sense.
My Last Day, Sunday September 18
I wrote out a long account of details: the whole goodbye.
I had to write it all out. I…

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Song & Storytelling: The Events Before I Go

By First Person Foreign on September 26, 2016

Act One:

Five days before I flew away, Laura and I performed The Last Five Years.

It took five minutes and a handshake to reserve the Arctic Bar patio. Tom Thompson donated the equipment. Brooke & Cyrus helped run the event, making announcements and collecting donations. Our friends came.

The Arctic Bar…

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