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OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
6. 30something years ago
Tue Jun 5, 2012, 05:38 PM
Jun 2012

I lived on a pallet in my friends' room in Garland, Texas. His mom called us bohemians. She was an art teacher at the high school and we were into drawing and photography. We worked at restaurants for free food and enough money to buy weed and go to concerts. We mostly filched her art supplies but she didn't mind. She liked us creating.

I didn't have shit but what I could pile in the corner of his room but those were some of the best years of my life. Simple and fun. I occasionally miss it.

However, I do not recommend Garland, TX as a bohemian mecca. We were the only two I knew there and neither of us are still there.


Besides, if you do it right, bohemia is wherever you are.

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IMHO ecaramil Aug 2012 #7
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