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Remember YOUR "small keed time"?

Those were the good old days! YOU were young, innocent, naive and maybe even a little bit "kolohe" (rascal). When you look back, I bet you cannot help but grin, yeah?  I bet you can just feel a longing oozing up inside of you for a time when life was much simpler. Wherever you live now, if you grew up in Hawaii, you must remember your "hanabuddah days". Eh, no shame ... we all had "hanabuddah".

Eh … right now get choke stories already online written by Hawaiians and Hawaiians at heart. Most all writers had the unique life experience of growing up in Hawaii. That’s why the site is called ”Hanabuddah Days”.

Enjoy these personal stories.

 


 

Me and Rudy

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Rudy lived in Sugar Mill Camp.  His father worked in the Kahuku cane fields. I can't remember how many brothers and sisters Rudy had, but...it always seemed she had a small one at her breast.

It was in those early days of my youth that blended one into the other; colors fading one tinting the other.  Some faces I can remember distinctly...others only the shades of how their lives touched mine.

For some reason Rudy was different.  He had that kind of chipmunk face that was

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The Hula Teacher

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When I was little, maybe six or seven, I was taking hula lessons in Makaha. I had a kumu that was VERY strict (which one isn't ?).   I remember I was struggling to do the common hula exercise.   You know the one... where you have

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Da Mosquito Ka

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Eh... I wen grow up on da Hawaiian Homesteads in Hilo.  We was living up Keaukaha and us neva kno' we was pua... but my neibas house had screens in da windows... and we neva had... so you know what da mosquitos did to us !!

I was the youngest

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Da Kine Sandcrabs

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When I was a hanabudda kid growing up on Kauai, my cousins and I use to spend most of our waking hours on the beach. One of our favorite beaches was Kalapaki Beach on Kauai's southeast side where the Kauai Surf Hotel use to be (currently the Kauai

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Gramma's House

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When I was one small kid, my gramma and grampa when raise us cuz my fadah was in Kwajalein... my madah, well, guess she nevah like being one mom so she when take off wit some oddah guy, but dass one uddah story. Anyway, was good when we was small

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What dis on my face?

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How many of you guys no can stand kaka-roaches?  I know I wen spell um wrong ovah hea but, eh, when you cannot stand something, you guarantee going call whatever it is you cannot stand, kaka, yeah?

Anyway dis one time, when I waz one teenagah

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