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However, an editor will not post any comments that are libelous or vulgar. well-writte- n. . : : ' )I-"- BY STEPHEN B. ARMSTRONG Guest Columnist I grew up in a subdivision built on top of an old tobacco plantation. Slaves had worked the land where we rode our skateboards and played touch football after school. A wide road bisected the neighborhood, leading on one end to a salt water creek. Sailboats drifted in circles around anchor buoys down there, and johnboats rested on the muddy shore chained to trees. There was a seaplane, too, that had bright orange floats. At the other end of the LI (el- 11L'15 K home, found our bikes and sped off in the direction of the creek. We quickly found the truck pulling the hoisted mansion. Men with hard-hawalked alongside it, communicating with hand gestures through the noise made by the truck's shuddering engine. They waved us forward, and we hovered around the cab, watching the spectacle move inch by inch. Through the bottoms of our sneakers we could feel the ground quiver. We watched for an hour or so from our bikes. Dusk rolled in, and the day lost its color, making silhouettes of the trees that rose around the subdivision's edges. Then one of the truck's tires blew out, and a blast of air that smelled like hot rubber swept past us. The straining, groaning sound of the engine stopped immediately. As the door on the driver's side of the cab popped ts "non-riparia- i' ,, My sense of who I was as a person that day had changed, however. The juxtaposition of danger and the gorgeousness of rock 'n' roll had made me aware of death's imminence and freed in me an impulse to pursue what I could from life, to chase what I subsequently started to call the Big Ideas: love, art and resistance. My mother and father that night at the dinner table asked about what had happened with the mansion and worried for us when we mentioned the blowout. 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VIDEO EDITOR: OVERSEEING ..4";1NWii-Tkl"- i;.PktiOrtA119:01 . , EDITOn-Irl- - r';'r P ; f PRODUCING ity. t i STAFF FOR THE or Kraft Dinner--dishe- s my parents served with confounding predictabil- !, S , 12 I , ' r 1130.111RAGES .4, 41;-- V N t , VIDEO CONTENT; - , nfl L1LJ - open, a man in a hard hat jumped down. He didn't shut the door. He had been listening to a rock station, and as he walked toward the distressed tire, I could hear Bruce Springsteen's "Hungry Heart" spill out. I know I'd heard the song before; it was a minor hit back then in 1981. But at that moment the plaintiveness in Springs-teen'- s voice, especially as he cried out "Don't make no difference what nobody says Ain't nobody like to be alone," made my own heart tremble. I felt an aching to be an adult at that moment, to experience for myself the aloneness the song warned against. As the sun dropped behind the trees and the street lights came on, the pack of kids on bikes dissipated. The show had stalled, and we had to get home for dinner. I'm sure my sister and I were given cube steak and rice or tuna noodle bake or spaghetti with meat sauce bus dropped us off that afternoon, we scrambled road, which ran a mile or so, a large white house built during Reconstruction that everybody called the "mansion" stretched over a partly leveled hill. This had been the residence of the old planters and their descendants. It was a severe, but attractive, building with carpet-line- d staircases, oak railings, plaster ceilings and chandeliers. One day the real estate development company that had built the neighborhood informed the homeowners that it was moving the old house down to the creek with plans to turn it into a n waterfront" as far No one property. as I know challenged this decision, and the process of separating the mansion from its foundation and lifting it onto an enormous flatbed truck proceeded a short time later. 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