lots of friends, male and female, and was never bullied in any way - just curl pulling . One of my regrets is that I have no brothers or sisters. I feel cheated. This is probably why I love and keep my friends. I remember sitting on my daddy’s lap to listen to “Jack Armstrong” The All American Boy. Also Inner Sanctum and other scary radio shoes including The Shadow. I remember Franklin De la nor Roosevelt told the radio listeners, “There is no fear but fear itself,” whenWWII was going on. I remember having to hide under my desk at school to practice for air raids to come during the war. I remember collecting tin cans and taking off tops and bottoms and flattening them for the war effor t. I also always had a victory garden. I love to grow things. My dad had a small car with a rumble seat in the back and he would take me and my friends for rides in it. There was a “sheeny” who would drive through the neighborhood every week or so picking up junk and I was scared to death of him. When I would hear his horn, I would run behind our big morris chair and sit on the floor for hours with my little kitty cat. We always had a cat. I love, love cats! When I was 10, my worst nightmare happened. My parents got a DIVORCE. I was devastated!!! No one ever said more payers or went to more masses than me to pray that they would reconcile, but they did not. My dad lived at theYMCA. We had a date every Saturday for a show, dinner, and a present. Sometimes he took my girlfriend too. Thank God my dad never forgot me and loved me always and made me feel precious to him which gave me the confidence a girl needs. When I was in 8th grade on a day off from St. Joseph’s, my friends and I decided to go across the street to North Scranton Jr. High to check it out. As we were graduating and going to N. Scranton next year. We were walking around the halls looking around and a security guard saw us so we started to run toward the back door. As I pushed it open, one of my friends pushed me and my left hand and wrist went right through the small glass window pane. Blood was all over the place, it was bad! They took me to the nurse’s station and cleaned it but I needed stitches. This was my first venture on my own. I didn’t want to tell my mom or dad. I borrowed change and got on the street car (for the 1st time myself) and went to the State Hospital and got 7-8 stitches. This was my first time dealing on my own and I was very proud of myself. Nor th Scranton Jr. High was my school for the next 2 years. I met my best friend at his time when I was 13 yrs old, Dorothy Novak Fische. She went to a different school and we did everything together. Her granddaughter is Lexi Thompson (Golfer). We are still friends to this day. She lives in Plantation, FL. After my dad left, we moved next door with my grandmother and rented out our half to the Sables. They had a son Vincent on whom I had a crush. In fact, he gave me my first kiss in the back yard one night. Only one, only once. Then I met Jimmy Backus at school. He used to follow me around. I was a freshman and he was a sophomore and a football player. I was a cheerleader. There was no dating only talking or walking together. Sometimes, I was allowed to have him sit on
When I was in four th grade, my teacher was Sister Prudencia. She loved me and I loved her. I was her pet. The school consisted of eight grades and they were having a play which would be held at North Scranton Jr. High School stage. I was chosen as the lead.The play was “The Princess Who Never Smiled.” I had to sit on a gold throne and each of the eight grades would have to perform in front of me trying to make me smile or laugh. “The Princess Who Never Smiled.” The PrincessWho Never Smiled or The Unsmiling Tsarevna (Russian: Царевна Несмеяна) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki.
There was once a princess who never smiled or laughed. Her father promised that whoever made her smile could marry her, and many tried, but none succeeded.
Across the town, an honest worker worked hard for his master. At the end of the year, the master put a sack of money before him and told him to take as much as he wanted.To avoid sinning by taking too much, he took only one coin, and when he went to drink from a well, he dropped the coin and lost it.The next year, the same thing happened to him.The third year, the worker took the same amount of coin as before, but when he drank from the well, he did not lose his coin, and the other two coins floated up to him. He decided to see the world. A mouse asked him for alms; he gave him a coin.Then he did the same for a beetle and a catfish.
He came to the castle and saw the princess looking at him.This astounded him, and he fell in the mud.The mouse, the beetle, and the catfish came to his aid,
and at their antics, the princess laughed. She pointed him out as the man, and when he was brought into the castle, he had been turned into a handsome man.The honest worker, now a handsome man, married the princess. It is an old European Bedtime story. My parents were there together and I remember how happy I was and could not smile. All through grade school, I had a crush on a boy named Marty - he would give me a valentine and I would quickly tear it up so no one would know. I am quite a private person. I always had
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