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Location: Wampler and Paramount, Ca, 09660

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I arrived in Los Angeles on December 21. I’m visiting la familia. Spending Christmas with my family in Los Angeles, has always been a tradition. Moving to Delano never stopped it. I have now been living in the great Central Valley for five years.

I am happy living in Delano, but would never stop coming to my first home, L.A. to visit. My mom and sister are here, my brother and his wife, and of course my son. Of course there is the rest of my extended family and friends, the ever present attraction for me to return to southern cal. To all MAS readers here are some…

Postcards from Southern Cal

The only place where even in the middle of winter

You are assured a few surprising days of sun

And gifts of darkened silhouettes of palm trees

Against bright morning light

A perfect seventy degrees

The only place where you can stand on the corner

Of Wampler Street and Paramount Blvd.

Wearing mismatched pajamas

While your son takes a picture

Posed for of course

Against the background of the heavy traffic

On Paramount Blvd.

On a Saturday morning

When hardcore truckers and die hard office people

Are still driving and commuting

Still chasing

The ever shrinking, disappearing L.A. dream

L.A. is the only place where I can blend

Into the crowds

Accompanied by my 2 best friends

Old age and eccentricity

Is not by chance that I am here

In my son’s room

My L.A. crash pad

After all it is the yearly Holiday

The one reserved for family and friends

And those who understand

The woman that I am

I only live like this in old Delano

To some degree

That’s why for me right now

L.A.’s the place to be.