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I love this photo...I would definitely want to step inside. As a kid I always wished there were places like this I could enter...as an adult, I want to enter the larger, darker entryways that aren't entryways.

Me, too! I used to search for places I could live in if I needed to - abandoned gas stations, holes, spaces beneath rocks, cellars, tunnels, ditches with thich foliage covering them ... For me, it was something to do with safety and privacy (escaping my dad, especially). Then there was also the covert aspect. I wanted to be like a super-spy! Ha!

How about you? What was it? Curiosity? Fear? A longing for safety? Privacy?

We're in synch again, because I am planning to post a picture of just such a place, with an excerpt from one of my essays ... And being in synch (especially on something like this) only makes me wish even more that we had known each other as little kids. We would have had fun, no? We certainly would have had adventures ... Sigh.

We would have been lots of trouble, us spy girls!

My search for covert, unsuspecting 'places' was based on episodes of Twilight Zone, like the one where the little girl and her dog fell into a different dimension. I went around feeling walls underneath, near tables in my house, and elsewhere, trying to see if my hand might go through a wall and I could be transported.

There were many, many reasons to wish myself away into other places where there were no other people.

So, to answer your question, mostly curiosity compelled me to look for those otherworldly spaces, though. A belief that I *could* find them, that I was 'special' enough to (I won't say here if I did or not. Teehee!).

Wendy, you are so damn cool!