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They even drove out there to visit her once she got settled. They were happy to see her have an adventure. Her parents were supportive of her idea although they were sad to see her go. She began saving and preparing her parents for a summer long trip to Wyoming. Mimi got the travel bug and decided that she wanted to have a solo adventure of her own. The scene was very surreal as we remember it so we plan to go back up there to revisit the refuge to see if anything is as we remember it. The floor was covered in their dried fallen leaves that turn white as they decay. Each cane was around six inches in diameter and they were spread out just enough to walk through. To get to the fire tower we had to go through a Timber Bamboo grove that was the biggest grove of bamboo I’ve ever seen. We would stay up there until it got too chilly or too late.

There was an abandoned fire tower with no locks on it so we claimed it as ours.

We had a special hideout in the refuge where we talked for hours. To this day Mimi will stop her car at a ditch bank to dig some up to transplant towards the back of our property so we can reminisce this time of year while their red is at its boldest. We rode our mountain bikes all over Starkville and all around Noxubee Wildlife Refuge where we both fell in love with the blood red Sumacs that are there in abundance. As long as it meant being with her, I’d tell stories as long as she seemed interested and probably sometimes when she wasn’t. I would woo her with my travel stories and I loved telling her all about the fascinating places that I’d seen. She joined us and I clearly remember that every time our skin touched sparks would fly! We both felt the sparks and began spending a lot of time together. I knew I had to find out who she was before she got out of there so I asked her to join us in our crazy game.

I think there was a game of twister going on. She walked into the house that my roommate and I rented. I was just back from my first trip to India and my year-long journey around the Mediterranean Sea. When I met Mimi during college, I was 23 and Mimi was 18 years old.

Giant in the playground order of the stick