{"id":5800,"date":"2021-01-09T18:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T02:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2024-07-20T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T23:06:22","slug":"lost-at-disneyland-from-a-theory-of-expanded-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/lost-at-disneyland-from-a-theory-of-expanded-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost at Disneyland from A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><em>&#8220;Can you imagine<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>how many kids get left behind at Disneyland every year? There have to be a few of them. Among all those hundreds of cars in the parking lot, there&#8217;s probably enough to form a club. Maybe the club could be called &#8220;The Left Behinds&#8221; or &#8220;Disney Orphans&#8221;. How many of the stories could possibly have a happy ending?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The weird part is, when we lost Dominic, it was <em>hours<\/em> before we even realized he was gone.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-White-Balloons.webp\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5803 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-White-Balloons.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-White-Balloons.webp 457w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-White-Balloons-230x300.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I lay in bed, picturing Dominick&#8217;s big ears against his recently shaved buzz cut and panicked about him going missing, I got the feeling that someone was at the door to our bedroom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-from the novel<\/p>\n<p>A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE,\u00a0Chapter 10 Lost Boys<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/17484392\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/3aa9a7\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s podcast <strong><em>Lost at Disneyland<\/em><\/strong> is an excerpt from my novel A THEORY OF EXPANDED LOVE. If you haven&#8217;t read it and you haven&#8217;t already fallen for it, it is available to order on this page, from this website as a paperback book. So you can still have some laughs and nail biting moments as a result of meeting Annie Shea in this novel! Don&#8217;t even try to resist!<\/p>\n<p>Go here for reviews: <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/reviews-for-a-theory-of-expanded-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/reviews-for-a-theory-of-expanded-love\/\">R E V I E W S \u00a0 O F \u00a0T H E O R Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LOST-PARENTS-@-Disneyland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5811\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LOST-PARENTS-@-Disneyland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"929\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LOST-PARENTS-@-Disneyland.jpg 929w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LOST-PARENTS-@-Disneyland-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LOST-PARENTS-@-Disneyland-768x465.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/LOST-PARENTS-@-Disneyland-600x364.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 929px) 100vw, 929px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jaz-PODCAST-name-plate.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5787\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jaz-PODCAST-name-plate-945x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jaz-PODCAST-name-plate-945x1024.jpg 945w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jaz-PODCAST-name-plate-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jaz-PODCAST-name-plate-768x832.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jaz-PODCAST-name-plate-1417x1536.webp 1417w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jaz-PODCAST-name-plate-600x650.jpg 600w, https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jaz-PODCAST-name-plate.webp 1771w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To listen to more <strong><em>SOME KINDA WOMAN <\/em><\/strong><em>stories<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0go back to:<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinhicks.com\/wordpress\/podcast\/\">ALL MY PODCASTS PAGE\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Can you imagine how many kids get left behind at Disneyland every year? 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