We lived at 2027 Bivins Street in Durham, North Carolina, at the end of a street, on a circular turnaround, next to a park.

In the center of this 1998 TerraServer Picture you can just make out a circle, which is the exact location of our house, indicated by a pin, and where the picture on the left was taken.

I remember putting a staple through my thumb, by accident, while playing with the stapler. My mother was not sympathetic.

Above: Me (left) and my brother Evon Hochstein on the fence in our front yard at our Bivins Street house in Durham North Carolina, in late 1964, or early 1965.

Below: Sitting on a fence at Bivins Street, photoprocessing date of January 1965.

Another time, I remember running away, all the way across the street.

Then I stood across the street pretending to be unable to decide which direction to go (hoping to be stopped).

Finally I went just a few feet down the hill into the park, and was sad, alone, for a long time in the afternoon sun.

I was sad, and yet I remember experiencing a kind of cautious pleasure in having escaped, and being momentarily self sufficient and alone in the warm sun.

Eventually, no doubt, I got up and went home.

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In the winter we would toboggan and sled in the park.