Photos: My father the Californian
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James Lee Farmer as a toddler in South Gate, California.
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James Lee Farmer as Mr. Math.
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James Lee Farmer newly wed to Gladys Clark Farmer.
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Grandpa Clark gardening in Provo, Utah.
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Grandpa Farmer working in South Gate, California.
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Farmer children Rachel, Jared and Deborah.
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James with his scion fig.
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The greenhouse in its glory days.
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The former Farmer house today. The rock foundation is all that remains of the greenhouse. But dad's sequoia, seen behind the house, lives on.
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Dad's favorite: a sickly sweet milk-chocolate-covered maraschino cherry immersed in hot pink syrup.
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