My First Love-s
Kindergarten
She was my first girlfriend and lollipop cute. I remember her on
the swings. Our eyes met and in that instant I was hers and she was mine. I
yearned for her, I knew not why. It was bliss. Then I met her big ugly sister.
Looking at me with disdain, straw colored hair, cold grey eyes and moon shaped freckled face. She
scared the hell out of me. I cringed. You people! She said with that face. How could Donna,
with the soft dark hair, deep brown eyes and shiny cream colored skin - have
such an ugly looking sister? Oh woe, Donna! There was nothing else to be done. I had to end it for I could not
deal with her huge fierce looking sister under any circumstance or condition. I could have been braver, but our romance was off limits according to Bob Jones University and it was too much work in general to get around that monstrous third grader. Thus, our
twenty five minute romance was cut short - and rather abruptly. On the positive side I never saw her sister again
My next love was not until years later, two to be exact. Her name was Barbara and where Donna's
skin was light cream, Barbara's was deep dark chocolate, smooth and tight. I was
engulfed in flames again, but she did not know what to make of me and neither did I… I rode to her house about three and a
half blocks away on my twenty two inch red, white and black Sears coaster bike. I looked at her front window hoping she might see me, waited around for maybe three minutes, made another slow pass then turned around
and rode away. That was about the extent of our torrid affair. It would be
four years before I made any attempt to love again.
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| The Almost Repaired Amp |
Many many years later I found out that Barbara’s father was a TV
repairman. I got his number and he almost fixed an old tube type stereo
amplifier I had, it looked kind of like the illustration above, it was a beast!
Small world indeed. If you were wondering - no I did not try to rekindle anything - actually it was a little embarrassing on some random level. Barbara was not even around and her younger sister was eyeballing me - but I was there on strict business.
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