Carter Park

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It was a fall day in October. I was 13. My mother picked me up after school to go into downtown Vancouver to buy a new pair of shoes at Kessler’s shoe store on Main Street. She had to stop at my dad’s store, Besserman & Vel Radio and TV at 15th and Washington, to get some money. Dad came out of the store to give mom some cash. As he bent down to the window of our 1959 Ford Ranch station wagon, Dad started running backwards. I thought that was bizarre.