Monday, July 10, 1989

Mike & Kyle Vanderzanden

Mike & Kyle Vanderzanden.

In 1988 or 1989, when I was 3 or 4 years old, Mike & Kyle Vanderzanden moved next door to us to unit 162, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon USA. They had a small loud-barking dog named Quincy that I was always scared of. He lived from like the 1980's until 2005 or so. I was friends with Kyle until like 2008 or so. His dad (Mike) had at least one divorce and was drinking. Mike was raised Catholic but then he asked Christ to save him in the year 1994 or so. Mike would take Kyle to church and to Creation Fest sometimes. Kyle liked the song Jesus Freak by DC Talk I think, but Kyle may not be Christian, but his dad, Mike is. I never really talked to Mike until the past few years. I started going to church with him in 2008 maybe and then 2011 and 2012.

They had a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). I saw bits and pieces of the film Indiana Jones. They had cable for a few years. Kyle had a arcade machine in his room. It was classic. We would play hide and seek. Sometimes, one of us may hide on the top of the arcade machine or in the closet, or in the bathroom, or behind the couch, or under the bed in his dad's room.

1989
4 years old
162, Rose Grove, Forest Grove, Oregon, United States
Joey Arnold, The Original Oatmeal

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