Every so often.......Dave and I would visit Bruce's parents........Virgil and Kathleen............who had a younger son........named Ralph.............Virgil passed in the 1980s...........when I was homeless in Texas in 2013...............Bruce and his girlfriend Teresa drove from Dallas to Austin to pick me up at the Greyhound bus station.............................................an aside story.......................they drove me to San Antonio, TX...........and we were going to go back to Dallas, but the two of them got to fighting and I got out of the car and walked off.............

Anyways..............as kids, Bruce took us here..........to Paradise, CA.................where there is a sign outside of town..............that reads.........."U are now descending into Paradise".............like the name of the city............................when I was homeless in Texas in 2013.........Bruce said that Kathleen and Ralph were still alive..................and that he had power of attorney over his brother Ralph..........................................

We would fly stand by into Sacramento, CA.................and drive up to Paradise..........like 3 hours away............in the foot hills of the Sierra Nevada mountains..................we went gold hunting..........in rivers...............................like sieving water...............we actually found some gold dust..........in some Northern California river...................I remember me asking Virgil if bigfoot lived in those mountains..............Northern California does not have many people...................and is very pretty.........................Virgil and Kathleen had a log cabin type of house............with THE coolest fireplace I have ever seen..............it had a ton of rocks...........like nice rocks u see in the Natural History museum....................................................................they had walking sticks.........like an entire collection of them.............and we would walk in the woods in and near Paradise..................

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Paradise

Town in California

Paradise is an incorporated town in Butte County, California. It is located in the Sierra Nevada foothills above the northeastern Sacramento Valley. The town is statistically classified within the Chico Metropolitan Area. Wikipedia

Elevation: 1,778′

Weather: 52°F (11°C), Wind W at 7 mph (11 km/h), 50% Humidity

ZIP codes: 95967, 95969