There had been almost no rain at all that year.The city stopped watering the park grass.Within a few weeks I found myself living across the street from a huge brown desert.Leaves fell off the park trees,and pretty soon the trees started dying,too.Next,the park swimming pool was closed.The city cut down on the work force that kept the park,and pretty soon it just got too ugly and dirty to enjoy anymore.
As the drought lasted into the fall,the park got worse every month.The rubbish piled up or blew across the brown grass.Soon the only people in the park were beggars and other people down on their luck.People said drugs were being sold or traded there now.The park had gotten scary,and my mother told us kids not to go there anymore.
The drought finally ended and things seemed to get back to normal,that is,everything but the park.It had gotten into such bad shape that the city just let it stay that way.Then about six months ago I heard that the city was going to“redevelop”certain wornout areas of the city.It turned out that the city had planned to get rid of the park,sell the land and let someone build rows of apartment buildings on it.
The chainlink fencing and the bulldozers did their work.Now we live across the street from six rows of apartment buildings.Each of them is three units high and stretches a block in each direction.The neighborhood has changed without the park.The streets I used to play in are jammed with cars now.Things will never be the same again.Sometimes_I_wonder,though,what_changes_another_drought_would_make_in_the_way_things_are_today.
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