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The Fundamentals of Direct Mail - Arroba

from 1983​-​2002 by Larry Wendt

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Having to leave my apartment of ten years which was off of First Street in downtown old San Jose, and then out into one of the many gerrymandered, outlying suburban neighborhoods which the construct that is now what present-day City of San Jose is known for, was a somewhat jarring experience for me. After the difficult experience of working with a realtor examining several different areas in the immediate San Jose area, our realtor, George, found us this place in the Cambrian area of San Jose on Arroba Way in which I have lived since. This piece is dedicated to George who tragically killed himself on the night before we signed to buy this house. With this shock and the additional shock of being a "city dweller" for so long but yet, escaping the ever-spiraling rent and then being able to live in a "real home" with the possibility of "owning" it someday (instead of endlessly throwing my hard-earned cash down a "rat hole" to nowhere), was both a joyful yet very sad experience for me. All of a sudden I had the responsibilities as well as the confusion of being a first-time homeowner. I had a two-bedroom, one-bathroom, house built in 1953 in a somewhat quiet yet bland suburban neighborhood (which looked like everywhere else) complete with a front yard with a lawn (which the long California drought eventually killed), a postage stamp-sized backyard in which often floods when it rarely does rain, an abandoned, very vocal and angry, feral Siamese-mix, beat-up, old tom cat (that lovingly became known as "Meathook" after he slashed me several times with his lethal claws) who believed he owned the place, and a serious debt up to my neck to pay off for 35 years or so. The text to this piece was a list of fragments of the various documents and impressions I had gone through during this process of giving up my previous life of being a "professional student" after I left my parents' home several years before, and becoming an "adult" with adult bills and worries trying to survive in late free market capitalism and a heated technological environment which became known all over the world as Silicon Valley (rather than just another urban textbook example of how not to plan a city).

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from 1983​-​2002, released May 2, 2023

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