we have arrived! we are sitting around the table with cici, our tiny neighbor, eating shaved ice and blue bubblegum flavor. the city is golden and smells of summer honeysuckle. the heat is high but the breeze from the mississippi keeps us from sweating in the morning time. we are biking everywhere. down esplanade to the french quarter, skirts are all i can handle. shorts and jeans are too hot for legs. the mosquitoes are biting bad and we all have bites around our ankles. in the neighborhood there are kids everywhere! they come to the door around 9 in the morning and rarely leave until 10 at night. they are all boys. there are 10 of them that ride in a pack in this neighborhood and hang out with us on the porch and in
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