afternoon, in my mind, didn’t ….

afternoon, in my mind, didn’t have as much freedom as we did,” Kaspar said.

On occasion, he and his friends would sneak into the “chow line” at Recreation Park, which had been set up to assist the homeless and those whose homes had been damaged in the earthquake.

“The thing I remember most about the earthquake was afterwards,” Kaspar said. When the quake hit, walls facing a certain direction crashed to the ground. Kaspar said the buildings reminded him of dollhouses, the fallen walls leaving the interior of homes naked to passerbys.

“A giant critter could come around and move the desk, that was the impression I got,” he said.

Despite all the hubub about the earthquake, Kaspar never let the earthquake’s anniversary take away from the most important event of March 10: “My birthday is mine, and I don’t care if anybody knows it or what. It’s my day.”