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Okay, chapter twelve!

The only time a closet of mine is ever empty is right before we move in or out of a house! Usually they are stuffed to the gills.

In Hawaii it is absolutely normal to see mansions next door to shacks. There is quite a hodgepodge of structures in most Hawaiian residential areas. It really is kind of fascinating.

High school kids in Hawaii do learn how to shoot guns. There are classes at school. Hunting is still a very large part of the culture in the islands. At the front of the telephone book for Kauai there are several pages of information about hunting seasons, when you can hunt, where you can hunt, what you can hunt, and with what you can hunt. (Some times of year you can hunt some animals using guns, sometimes you can only use crossbows. Some times you can use hunting dogs, sometimes not.) It’s very, very elaborate. I have never met someone who grew up on Kauai who couldn’t shoot. While I didn’t learn how to shoot while living there, I did get a quick lesson spearfishing from a local who also was our taxi driver when we went to the airport and who baked a mean chantilly lace cake. He was a man of many talents.