You don’t normally think of a cemetary as a place to hang out, but Hope Cemetary was different. It was included in the area tourist brochures as a place to see. I used to go there sometimes alone, but mostly with friends. We’d wander amoung the tombstones–talk and take pictures. Snow crunched beneath our winter boots.
That was when I was listening to Tom Waits all the time. I’d play Franks Wild Years
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