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I was about 3 years old. I was born in Austria and my family was still living there before coming to the U.S. just before I turned 4. Near where we lived there was a big castle overlooking a river, somewhere around Salzburg. On one of the open terraces there was a pool you could walk around with a gargoyle face fountain on the castle wall spouting water from its mouth into a pool. I was always afraid to look at that gargoyle...I remember clutching my mother's skirt and wrapping it around my face and hiding behind her. The other memory I have of that place is being very upset when I threw pieces of bread into a fenced yard where the castle's deer lived; I wanted the fawns to get the bread but the big deer ate it...that made me quite upset.
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