Really random memories

Actually going to school and playing with other kids.  We'd line out the walls of a house with pine straw and hove doors and windows,,the boys would destroy our walls and laugh as they run away.  Silly boys, didn't understand you were only supposed to use the doors to enter and exit.

Going to a nice doctor house place to have my tonsils removed and having Popsicle and ice cream.  Then going back later because they had grown back!  So I got more Popsicle and ice cream and jello.

My step-father pinching my nipples every time i walked by, till mama told him to stop that, it hurt.  I learned to run around the other way to go outside.  Why didn't I ever tell that it bothered me.  I think by then I knew that it would make mama unhappy and I didn't want to do that.

Mama and daddy had separated,,,I didn't know or understand what divorce was.  And I never under stood why other people/kids said their parents didn't live together anymore and they didn't get to see their daddy much.  All of my parents got along,,daddy would come pick us up for the day and sit with mama and my step-father for a cup of coffee or glass of tea, then take us to the peachtree theater downtown.  I loved going there because it was like wandering around a castle, or that is what I pretended.  We went to see Gone with the wind when it first came out.  Daddy sat between me and Darlene and we took turns waking him up from snoring. 

Apparently he lost his drivers license for DUI,,didn't know it then but figured it out later.  But he still came to see us, he'd ride the different buses and i'd sit on the ledge of the front yard and wait for him to come walking down the street, then I took off running to meet him and hold his hand while we walked.  Then we'd catch the bus and go downtown to the big Atlanta park or a movie.  Once we went shopping to buy one outfit a piece,,I don't remember what Darlene bought but I got a pair of red shorts and a white red Polk a dotted mid-drift top, I looked like one of the girls on HE_HAW, so I thought. Oh and he took us to stone mountain to climb all the way to the top and then we went swimming in the lake and road the train.  Those adventures were good and I don't remember Darlene being mean to me when we were with daddy.

Once in a while, after he married, we'd go visit and spend the night in a tiny little house down a step drive way.  Darlene was getting older and didn't go all the time.  I'd go out the back, over the creek, thru the gudsue (don't know how to spell them weeds) but the hill up to the drive-in movie theater was covered in them.  If I heard anybody or got scared, I'd just lay down and they'd covered me up.  But every time I went to spend the night, I'd climb that hill and sit next to an empty speaker and watch the movie,,sometimes they were rated R, but step-mother and daddy didn't know that.  Boy did I get an education in real sex watching them movies.

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