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water until the well runs dry.” Mother told me she thought Grammie was referring to the loss of her own mother when she was just 12-years-old. But for me, that old adage calls to mind thunderstorms.
They rarely do thunder and lightening in Southern California; for excitement they’ve got mudslides, fires triggered by the Santa Ana winds off the desert, and the ever popular earthquake — but no thunder and lightening. Heck, they hardly have anything you could really call rain.
The truth is, I had never given thunderstorms a second thought...until suddenly there were no more. San Diego can boast nothing like those rumbling light shows which punctuated the muggy summers of my Pennsylvania childhood. You can take my word for it, eight-and-a-half years is a long time to go without thunder and lightening.
Yes, it was time to leave the
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