Postcards: Truckin', Got My Chips Cashed In

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Truckin', up to Buffalo
Been thinkin', you got to mellow slow

Grateful Dead

Dear Fellow Expat:

Tomorrow, I’m taking Amelia to the Baltimore Zoo.

I haven’t been there in years. When I was Amelia’s age, I was in first grade - and I could not wait to go to that zoo. It was on my calendar.

I counted down the days. I envisioned what would happen when I finally saw monkeys for the first time—the days seemed to feel like weeks as a kid.

The night before, I couldn’t sleep. I was so… excited that I didn’t fall asleep until after midnight.

Then… I woke up, and my mother noticed a bump on my face. Then another on my neck. And then my back.

Chickenpox.

I couldn’t go to school and thus couldn’t go to the zoo.

I wouldn’t make it to a zoo for another 11 years. The first time I f…