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Michael Dexter Hankins: HAVERTIGO “My brother, a couple of years later in Lubbock, Texas, coaxed me into riding something called a Tilt-A-Whirl.”
In 1972, having just graduated from high school, three friends from East High, along with me, late one night went to a small carnival next to the Valu-Mart shopping center. All went well until Jeff, Michelle, and Cathy, decided we needed to ride the Tilt-A Whirl. I wasn’t keen on the idea, but didn’t want to come across as wimpy either.
I made it through without getting sick amongst them, but quickly excused myself, finding a spot behind the generator trailer to hurl. My friends never knew. The next morning around five, noticing my wallet was missing, I drove back to that carnival, checking different Tilt-A-Whirl cars until finding it on the floor of one.
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