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The Mistakes Of Youth
Posted On Thursday April 12, 2007 By Stacy Horn
I can’t even remember the name of this bar anymore. I worked here in the 70’s when I was 19, and I took this picture after the place burned down the next year. I was postively exultant when I took this shot. I couldn’t have been happier, I think I was laughing the whole time. I had so many bad memories, had made all the mistakes that a 19-year-old makes here, slept with the wrong guy, etc.
But now, years later, I remember that I had also slept with a very sweet guy, (the wrong guy’s brother, can you believe it?) and even though I had made a lot of mistakes that summer, I was still only 19, relatively carefree, and I could still spend a summer mostly playing every day, day in and day out, and I wasn’t aware that along with that bar, everything else I touched and everyone I knew, including myself, was already in the process of disappearing.
Tags: bar, carefree, mistakes, youth