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I house sit for a friend a couple of times a year. She’s an older Jewish lesbian mom. A dynamo. With a hot tub and two cute cats, and a quiet house with a view. It’s like a vacation for me when she visits her lover.
But one of the things I like to check out when I visit is her son’s room. He’s just beginning his teens, but I’ve been house sitting long enough to watch him go from Harry Potter toys to Lego Mindstorms and Playstation 2. So on Saturday night when I arrived to the empty house, I got a beer and went into his bedroom to check out his toys. There were immediate telltale signs of "young man" everywhere: A baseball poster where there used to be an "Owl Post" poster, an electric guitar where there used to be a pile of Harry Potter Legos. But there were some Legos left around on his toy chest. I looked once and was on my way out, but then noticed the configuration of the Lego assembly. It was a compound. And in the back, was a child’s version of Abu Ghirab. Stunned, I took photos. Front. Inside. Detail. Compound.
