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On One Family Trip
During the time we lived in CA, we went on a trip to AZ where my stepdads family was.
I hated the trip through the desolate desert and barren landscape, no air conditioning, and never another human being anywhere. Just a huge long highway "short cut" of some sort. It was brutal. It made me wonder if every one of us didn't suffer some dehydration and heat stroke at some point.

I don't remember if it was our 1st trip or not, but the closer we got to some civilization my stepfather decided to drive through a McDonald's. I was shocked at what I overheard. I was rarely ever spoken directly to. We never ever got to do anything like that before.

I had never had a potato chip until I was 5 or 6 years old. I got in trouble at Sancta Maria International School for wandering around the school at one point, instead of going to class. Mother Victoria was shocked at my mother when...