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title: "Writing Practice: The Agua Caliente Airport"
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slug: agua-caliente
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description: "I did a writing exercise using a random Wikipedia page. And puns."
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added: "Nov 02 2016"
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tags: [learning]
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As I go through my old notes on my computer I found this old writing exercise I
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did that I highly recommend. You go to Wikipedia, hit the "Random" button,
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and you just write. For this one I decided to go the dramatic first-person
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route, and my topic was the [Agua Caliente Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agua_Caliente_Airport).
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I had a ton of fun with it, hope you enjoy!
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I sat there, alone, waiting, at the Agua Caliente airport. I'd been there for a
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couple hours, and still nothing had happened. I was hoping he'd be here by now.
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I thought back to the times where we would camp in the area, suns at our backs,
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on our way down to the hot springs, just enjoying the park. We'd check out the
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outdoor movie theater, even when it wasn't showing anything. We'd laugh and
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enjoy each other's company, having conversations that would last for hours. But
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that was a long time ago, back when planes were actually based in the area, and
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when we were actually happy.
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I checked my watch. 3 hours. I was getting impatient. I started pacing around
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the empty terminal, looking at the old chairs and the antique documents on the
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walls.
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Suddenly, I hear a voice behind me.
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"I thought I'd find you here."
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There he was. Exactly as I remembered. Older, perhaps, but just as
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confident-looking, with smile lines around his eyes.
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"Of course I'm here,” I replied, "I've been waiting for you."
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"You have to stop waiting for me. You know why I left." He opened the door and
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ushered me toward it, but I refused.
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"I don't know why. You never said. You had that cough and you left, and you
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never came back."
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"There was more to it than that," he said, "you know there was."
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I looked at him, hurt.
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"I was joking, you had to know that."
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"It wasn't about me," he murmured, looking out into the San Diego County sun,
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"when you said to my mother on the phone that I was terminally ill, you knew she
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wouldn't get the pun. You ruined her. You ruined us."
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I sat down, realizing that I was stuck here. I'd always be in hot water with
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him. I'd always be in Agua Caliente.
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Okay I know it's stupid. But I had fun with it. :)
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