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An old photo of an old friend's/classmate scribble of his name on our school that's now a cop shop. It's a mouthful, but so is chewing, swallowing and digesting what's being sold these days, which is why many of us from Pan Terra weren't purchasing the entirety of the popular narrative. For me, the old alternative high school was a good thing. It even came with a smoking area and a loud stereo, with which we cranked up the latest Priest or Maiden cassette to abuse our Couve neighbors with. The old place has been built over, expanded and reconfigured to something resembling a small police state. Which of course is hilarious, given what the building was, its bones, its aura, its energy, not the appearance of its fate. Some of us didn't make it far into the 90's, some of us did. Addiction, life, work, pain and overcoming the "adults" in our lives who may have loved us, but just weren't well equipped. Long insta short, don't buy everything that's being pushed. And for Christ's sakes, always, always! beat the Fort Vancouver wrestlers/football players up behind the Lil General...every chance you get. . . . . . . . . #vancouverwa #lilgeneral #panterra #alternativeschool #poets #dropouts #artists #workers #class #stories #life #editorial #pnwliving #thecouve #education #paulsrestaurant #norecess #music #addiction #love #altweekly #washingtonstate #cascadia #judaspriest #motleycrue #ledzeppelin #luckylager #survivors #friends #aura

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