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For Sale: A Privileged Childhood

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For sale... A privileged childhood (Seattle)

Reply to: sale-294778872@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-03-15, 7:30PM PDT

7broken watches
all purchased in Mexico
or Hawaii
36 stuffed animals
including wally the walrus
koali, pikachu
a cat that purs when u squeeze its hand
and the mechanical pig I used to hide my stash in.
30 or so shot glasses
a souvenir corona with a clay Mexican peeing on it
and a bottle of
monicas down on your knees hot sauce
 90 empty CD cases
 350 CDs
tons of loose CD covers,
a flip knife comb
a real butterfly knife
greeting cards, tzedakah boxes
 a brontosaurus, an allasorous a tyrannosaurus a stone hedgehog and some horrible art work from 3rd grade.

A signed photograph of both Magic Johnson and Larry Bird from
3rd grade as well 12 basketball jerseys
plastic models of Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, David Robinson,
Jack and some
Japaname cartoon robot
still sticky from the time I decided to wrap them all in duct tape.
A signed Shawk Kemp rookie card,
A signed Jamie Moyer rookie card,
unopened boxes of top flight cards
A signed photograph of Edu, Pele’s left winger
trophies and medals from basketball, skiing, water polo, soccer
but none with “1st place” on them
a mini-basketball from the 1993 final four in seattle
signed by the team GWU, where I would eventually go to school.
Magazine cut outs of the players I admired
and some, like Vin Baker, who I didn’t
mini soccer ball and basketball erasers
team pictures, action shots, MVP awards
and some of those fake magazine covers with
me on it claiming that I am the “hotshot of the week.”
I scored 2 points that whole season.

A bulletin board being pulled off the wall
by the excessive number of pictures,
 a never-ending supply of photo albums,
sugar packets, napkins, coasters, fliers, brochures,
ticket stubs, trinkets, statues, dirt, bullet casings, glass,
empty cigarette boxes, postcards, letters, plane tickets
birthday wishes, bar mitzah cards, notes passed to me in middle
school love letters from girlfriends, love letters to girls I never sent,
A Kama Sutra book from an ex-lover
year books full of signatures, diplomas, camp photos
unfinished poems, unfinished stories,
signs torn from college dorm walls,
 Maxims stolen from my brother
empty picture frames, old phone numbers
a gigantic 22nd birthday card and a time line of my life
from 1984-1994, complete a baby tooth
and pictures of my old house.

Thousands of legos,
Japanese action figures from Kyoko
A ferari, a Porsche, hot wheels, Burger King Tiny Toon Collectibles,
a transformer, army ants, bouncy balls,
science kits like the one I used to light my basement on fire
marbles, chessboards, Chinese checkers, Clue
playing cards, a game gear, my mother’s toy horses fossils I dug with my dad,
rocks I collected for fun
a bottle of ash from Mt. St. Helens,
Robo the change eating piggy bank robot,
a single spool of Kite string,
Puka Shells, 2 broken Magic 8-balls
 fighter jets, commercial airliners hundreds of pogs, slammers and magic cards .


Location: Seattle . it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests PostingID: 294778872

~Stephen Rosenshein