At that age it seemed we were required to have a crush on some boy. Annie had a crush on a boy with a gold tooth. I thought to myself, “Hm, maybe Betty knows something. I think I’ll have a crush on him too.” In our neighborhood we would have block parties. All the neighbors would congregate and have a good time. Some weeks after the movie, at one of these block parties, a friend of mine intro- duced me to Sidney Albert, the boy in the camel- hair coat.
We had a milkshake machine at my home and I would invite the girls over to make milkshakes. It seems strange now but you used to be able to buy single cigarettes at the candy store. The other girls would smoke them as if they were sophisticated ladies. Not me. Not yet. FIRST CRUSH One Saturday afternoon Ann and Betty and I were at the movies. While we were sitting in the theatre waiting for the movie to start a boy wearing a beautiful camel-hair coat walked down the aisle. He was pretty good-looking with dark curly hair. Betty nearly shouted, “Dorothy, that’s the boy I have a crush on!”
Dorothy Schluger (21), Beverly Schmerling, Cousin Ruth Simon
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