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Dennis Donovan

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3. Fast Times was an iconic "coming of age" pic aimed at me, part of the class of 83...
Sun May 26, 2019, 05:22 PM
May 2019

The summer of '83 still looms large in my memory. I bought my first car - a 1975, Lime-Green AMC Hornet sedan, that had an 8-track with house speakers wired in the back seat. My buds and I drove from Syracuse to Niagara Falls one night in it, only to have the Canadian Border Patrol shake us down on the Rainbow Bridge (not the dead pet one ) and query us as a *half ounce* of prime skunk slipped from my underwear to my pants cuff... but NOT all the way out. It was what we were gonna smoke at the Horseshoe Falls (well, at least some of it). On the way home, I kept thinking about "Midnight Express" although Canada was nothing like Turkey

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