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Hekate

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15. I had just graduated from HS in Hawaii when we moved there in 1965. Culture shock is hardly the word for what I felt...

Reply to BlueMTexpat (Reply #5)

Mon Nov 3, 2025, 02:19 PM

Nov 3

Chaffey College was only 5 miles away, ergo I went to Chaffey. It turned out to be an excellent college, and I had some life changing experiences there, as one does at that age.
Took myself back to Hawai’i and the university at Manoa Valley in ‘68, with the intent of staying forever. Visited the folks every year — and they stayed in Cucamonga until after dad retired from Lockheed some 25 years later.
I ended up back in California in 1979, this time on the Central Coast, and here I remain. I am a person who likes living between the mountains and the sea…

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