![]() ![]() The last sentence read: "As a hobby, Leo Borlock collects porcupine neckties." The family section ran a regular feature about kids on their birthdays, and my mother had called in some info. On my fourteenth birthday, I read about myself in the local newspaper. ![]() Where do you find a porcupine necktie in Mica, Arizona - or anywhere else, for that matter? Two years after we settled in Arizona, the number of ties in my collection was still one. I loved that porcupine tie so much that I decided to start a collection. But then, with a dramatic flourish, he whipped off the tie and draped it around my neck. I thought he did so to give me one last look at it, and I was grateful. When Uncle Pete came to say goodbye, he was wearing the tie. I was twelve when we moved from Pennsylvania to Arizona. I kept looking for one of my own, but I could never find one. Uncle Pete would stand patiently before me while I ran my fingers over the silky surface, half expecting to be stuck by one of the quills. I thought that necktie was just about the neatest thing in the world. ![]() When I was little, my Uncle Pete had a necktie with a porcupine painted on it. ![]()
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