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Monday, June 18, 2007

"Hollow Hedge"

Hollow Hedge was a secret place, an invisible place. It was located in a field along a sound barrier wall than ran beside interstate 80. Hollow Hedge was the summer campsite of my friend "Ocean" He created it by hollowing out the large hedge that grew beside the sound wall and lining it on the inside with black plastic tarping, this made it virtually invisible. Every so often the police would sweep the area of homeless camps and remove the cardboard boxes and the shopping carts and what have you, but they failed to locate "Hollow Hedge" Like I said before, he was "the" most resourceful person I have ever known. Inside Hollow Hedge he had his bedroll, his personal belongings as well as a small library of books and a battery operated TV with headphones and a radio, basically all the comforts of home. When I say it was invisible I mean you could be standing 5 feet away and never know it was there.

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