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Here's my next earliest memory

May 5, 2022, 10:05 AM

I dreamt I was as light as the ether- a floating spirit visiting things to come. The shades and shadows of the people in my life rassled their way their way into my slumber. I dreamed that Gale and Evelle had decided to return to prison. Probably that's just as well. I don't mean to sound superior, and they're a swell couple of guys, but maybe they weren't ready yet to come out into the world. And then I dreamed on, into the future, to a Christmas morn in the Arizona home where Nathan Junior was opening a present from a kindly couple who preferred to remain unknown. I saw Glen a few years later, still having no luck getting the cops to listen to his wild tales about me and Ed. Maybe he threw in one Polack joke too many. I don't know. And still I dreamed on, further into the future than I had ever dreamed before, watching Nathan Junior's progress from afar, taking pride in his accomplishments as if he were our own. Wondering if he ever thought of us and hoping that maybe we'd broadened his horizons a little even if he couldn't remember just how they got broadened. But still I hadn't dreamt nothing about me and Ed until the end. And this was cloudier cause it was years, years away. But I saw an old couple being visited by their children, and all their grandchildren too. The old couple weren't screwed up. And neither were their kids or their grandkids. And I don't know. You tell me. This whole dream, was it wishful thinking? Was I just fleeing reality like I know I'm liable to do? But me and Ed, we can be good too. And it seemed real. It seemed like us and it seemed like, well, our home. If not Arizona, then a land not too far away. Where all parents are strong and wise and capable and all children are happy and beloved. I don't know. Maybe it was Utah.

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Playing with friends at the lake, jumping off the dock to see who could touch the bottom. We didn't know the bottom was 30'+ down. Jumped in 'like a pencil', got disoriented and thought I was going to drown. Somehow made it back to the surface, still scares the #### out of me.

Not sure how old I was, but I was young. 5 maybe. It was my birthday and I was having a joint party with another kid at one of those fun park deals with putt putt, bumper boats, etc. It was off Congaree Rd. if I recall, maybe someone will remember what that place was called. Anyway, my mom wanted me to wear a white pair of Keds shoes. I refused, for whatever reason I hated them. She forced them on me, I was pissed for weeks if not years. I was in high school before we were able to laugh about it.

Also, probably around kindergarten/1st grade. I had never been specifically told where my mom was from, just that she was "from the country". Teacher was going around the class asking where everyone was from, some first week of school activity. She ask where my mom is from, I say the country. She starts laughing and asks "oh, what country!" and laughs even harder. All of the other kids start laughing. I think that was the first time in my life I hated someone.

Earliest memories? 1 from the 2nd grade, 1 from 1st grade:

I wouldn't sweat it, man. We've all done things in our

Re: Earliest memories? 1 from the 2nd grade, 1 from 1st grade:

You a pothead focker?***

Here's my next earliest memory

Re: Here's my next earliest memory

Mine can go way back

When I was a toddler, my father was stationed in

What base were you on?

We were in Tokyo...

So Yokosuka***

My younger sis was born there in '78.

That is awesome...

Probably 4 years old - JFK assassination and funeral.

Yup. The funeral was maybe the 1st thing I remember.

I was in the first grade and remember getting out of school

Not sure exactly how old I was, maybe 6 or 7

An odd one, but earliest

I had a tricycle with a water gun

Re: I had a tricycle with a water gun

Big ol porch, not covered went front to side of house***

Re: Earliest memories? 1 from the 2nd grade, 1 from 1st grade:

My earliest memory is of one of the moon walks.

First grade, remembering our 3rd 1st grade teacher for that

I have three primary memories from Kindergarten/preschool

I was running in the hallway (big no no) and ran into Thomas

my first memory was age 15

Re: Earliest memories? 1 from the 2nd grade, 1 from 1st grade:

Re: Earliest memories? 1 from the 2nd grade, 1 from 1st grade:

I think I was in pre-kindergarten

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