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Story Time

Lived to Write About It By Terry Denevan

Whenever I see a eucalyptus with neighborhood but with ease,
tree, I think back to my happy acquaintances, often the kid scrambled
childhood summers in Long Beach, sought out challenging upward like Tarzan.

California. thrills. One summer, Eventually he
Atlantic Avenue, with two in the mid-1950s, stopped and then
northbound and two southbound Dave suggested that looked down.
lanes, was a block away from we and neighbor Slim “A little

our home. A stately grove of McCracket, climb a higher!” Dave yelled.
mature eucalyptus, fifty feet massive eucalyptus and Slim, a one-time
in height, lined the top of the attach a rope so that Boy Scout never
fifteen-foot bluff paralleling the we might leap off the progressed beyond
roadway. Those trees, unlike some bluff and swing over Tenderfoot, but he

eucalyptus, had smooth white Atlantic Avenue. so securely tied
trunks. Their gray slender leaves At the time the rope that an
were five or six inches long. Seed there wasn’t a second thought Eagle Scout would have given his

pods, abundant and distinctive, about wrapping our arms and legs approval. High in the eucalyptus,
littered the ground. around a tree and heading for the Slim whooped, “Up here, the cars
My brother Dave and I, along sky. A possibility of falling never look small!”
entered our Then, our friend put his

Rainbow Funding minds. The face to the limb that held him, and
added, “I think I’m going to stay up
unwritten rule
and Realty was hold on here for a while and take a nap.”
He closed his eyes and gave a fake
tight.
Slim, a snore.

Morgan Hill $799,495 Hayward $519,000 Pleasanton $295,000 daredevil-of-a- With a passing glance and
kid, volunteered a perfunctory pull, Slim gave
to climb the the knotted-rope one last bit of
tree and attach inspection. In less than a minute

the rope. Dave he started his descent. Hugging the
provided a tree, he quickly shimmied down.
4 bed 3 bath 4 bed 2 bath 3 bed 2 bath
1900 sq feet 1800 sq feet 1,296 sq feet foot hold with At the ground-end of the
interlaced rope, we looped it around a six-
More than 35 years of experience. fingers and inch piece of wood securing it with

Call the office that knows where the deals are. I lent my several well tied knots. We now
shoulder for

www.rainbowfunding.com Slim to start Story Time
his assent. The

1 (800) 782 - LOAN smooth-sided Continued on
tree had few
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branches in its
NMLS 340458 BRE 206510215 lower reaches,

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