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 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 shows including The Shadow. I remember Franklin Delano Roosevelt told the radio listeners,“There is no fear but fear itself,” when WWII 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 effort. I also always had a victory garden. I love gardening. My dad had a small car with a rumble seat in the back and he would take my friends and I 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 large 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 the YMCA. 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
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