Denver opened some doors to us.
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The old gothic West High School - where locker decoration is not a lost art form.
I'm trying to remember this.
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A discussion about Gonorrhea. The kids know it's serious!
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They even let us into the Governor's Mansion.
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The inside was so ostentatious. But outside it felt like we were a verse of 'Cemetary Gates'. I even sang the chorus out loud to Micaela. I'm pretty sure she was embarrassed.
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The Zang Mansion had the vibes. Mrs. Zang was giving us the eye.
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The staircase was filled with dark, ghosty sensations.
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The Zang Mansion even had a hinge on it's door made by some old time company called TACO.
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Finally, the Kirkland Museum - filled to the rafters with the neatest stuff. This painting was called 'Hatred'. I felt it.
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Vance Kirkland, if you haven't heard of the guy, was a 5'2 surrealist painter who was fired from Denver University for raising a stink over the University not giving full academic degree credit for art courses.
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Kirkland claimed he could hear color - SYNESTHESIA! And he hung himself from straps attached to the rafters to paint the middle of his large canvases.
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The Kirkland Museum also has tons of chairs exhibited that you aren't allowed to sit in.
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Welcome to the neighborhood! UNJADED SUMMER 2008!!
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