25 - Sarah with an H who lives alone on H Street.
24 - Sarah, "La Americana," calle Rafael Salazar Alonso, 9º Izda, with Little María, María Oviedo, and Marta.
23 - Sarah in her senior year of college, living with Brett-mate on 9th and 9th (a situation which I first hated and later loved).
22 - Sarah in Summer School--long-term house-sitter for the Moms, gardener, camper, kickball player. I failed to move out when they returned, but they liked the free baby-sitting.
21 - Sarah in the basement, her own bedroom suite, of Sara (no H)'s place. I met her when I was 14 and she was 23. Much awkwardness ensues.
20 - Sarah smoking weed in the basement before work at Einstein's, while upstairs Mom, Beth, and Natalie fight and baby Bastian learns to self-entertain.
19 - Sarah is Chi's girlfriend, and they live together in the Little Red House on McClelland with Mel and a rotating fourth roommate.
18 - Sarah from Ogden, freshman, living in the dorms with Sung-Ah, Mel and Janet the Bitch.
17 - Sarah the Stoner, living (if you can call it that) with Dad on McClelland, though I frequently snuck out to crawl into my boyfriend's bed.
16 - Sarah in between--Dad sells his house before finding us a new one, so I move into an office connected to Natalie's bedroom. Mom decorates it nicely.
15 - Sarah, Child of Divorce, living alone with dad in the Big House in Shadow Valley, but with a room at Mom's place on 25th Street, where the walls are blue with fluffy clouds.
14, 13, 12, 11 - Sarah in her early teens, a big house in Shadow Valley, across the street from Whitney, and the family is still (fighting) together.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 - Sarah Anne Bunny Anne Custen. A house in South Ogden, 825 East, 5750 South, and I can still remember not believing my mom when she said that though I'd grown up and lived most of my childhood there, this is the place I would remember the least, because I was so young. She was right, but I do remember:
- Walking home from school, one and a half miles, reading Mrs. Piggle Wiggle and almost getting hit by cars
- Leaving a continuous trail behind me of grass and leaves, thinking that someday I'd be known as The Woman Who Leaves a Trail Wherever She Goes
- Catching frogs in the field behind the houses
- Playing Doctor with at least three different neighborhood boys
- The college kids who had a garage band down the street, where we would sit on the lawn and listen to them practice while Toby the kitten sucked on our fingers with his rough tongue. We didn't like the music, but knew it would be cooler to pretend that we did.
- And so much more.
