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When I was a child, my parents would take us to the Mardi Gras fountain on Lakeshore Drive and they would buy us an ice cream or popcorn and then we’d stroll around and around the fountain. I remember those visits as encompassing almost the sum total of my childhood. It would just have become dark, the humid air would still be warm from the day, the colors of the fountain were exciting and mesmerizing. All of us children felt as if we were on a big outing.

The fountain has been defunct for a while and I just found out it was restored.

I’m looking forward to taking Tin to see it – where I hope he feels the same indelible magic I did.

My father would have been 90 years old this past January, and my mother would have been 78 years old this December. They are the bookends to the book I’m still writing.

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