A Friend’s Offer

A Friend’s Offer

by KIMSNo Comments
Some time has passed and both Kirk and I have finished our military service. It's around early 1986. Kirk found a place to stay in Fremont, California and since he became married to a wonderful person, Stephanie. More on her, later. I was unceremoniously fired from my first Cali job and landed a second as a cashier at a local health food store. I liked that job much better and the owners grew to trust me. During this time, I hung out with Kirk and Stephanie often poaching meals as often as they'd have me (which was unusually often). I was a pest. I had no other family in Cali. Kirk and Stephanie were it. He took me under his wing. He promised to look out for me after I finished my obligation with the Navy. He was true to his word. He must've let Stephanie know, because, she didn't seem to mind my regular appearances at their home...especially for...
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The Beginning…

The Beginning…

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Well... This has been a long time coming. I'm going to tell, from my personal experience, how the whole MC Hammer phenomenon began. With the world heavy in the throws of the aggressively contagious COVID-19 disease, a manufactured recession, forced U.S. unemployment and worldwide protests demanding equal autonomy and restitution for the descendants of enslaved African diaspora, it's been a crazy beginning to 2020. I'm telling this story, not to discount the importance of all that's currently happening, but, to share something unexpectedly positive and selfless. I feel the world needs to hear this, right now. MC Hammer is an incredibly kind, compassionate and humble person toward me. He didn't know me. He just 'had a feeling' about me. That's it. That's all it took. The rest is written in the history books. So, how did we meet? It was early 1984 and my assigned Naval Air Reconnaissance Squadron (VP-47) was preparing for deployment to Okinawa, Japan. I hadn't quite met all of...
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