I'LL LET YOU KNOW!!!!!

A really cool thing is going on right now…..

Yesterday I was hanging out on Face Book when a profile popped up that caught my attention.  The name on the profile was familiar from a time before 1957.

In August 1957 my family moved from Lebanon, Ohio to Pinellas Park, Florida.  I was 9 at the time.  We moved because Dad had some health issues that the doc said would be helped if he lived somewhere warm.  So, he sold his appliance store, sold our house and off we went to Florida.  

 

Me, maybe 3 years old 

Prior to that move we had lived on North Broadway in Lebanon where we had a very nice little neighborhood.  There were several kids who all were with a year or two of my age.  So, there was Larry and his two sisters, Bev and Cindy.  Ann who was the daughter of the local bank’s president and she had a sister, but I don’t remember her name.  And there was Marilyn who lived about four houses down the block.

We all played together as much as time would allow.  There was a creek that ran below our houses and where we tended to hang out.  I remember Mom telling me over and over to stay away from the creek, but back in those days, if the parents weren’t right there, it was a hard time to enforce rules.  So, we played in the creek a lot.  

 

There were times when we got in trouble.  I remember being kind of the ring leader and if there was an issue with the parents, I was usually the first point of contact.  Like for instance the time someone spread tar on the floor of Ann’s basement.  I don’t know why, but I was punished for that, even though I knew nothing about it….really!!

Mrs. Lincoln lived next door to my house and she had peonies in her yard.  One year someone in the group picked all the flowers off her bushes just as they bloomed.  Turned out that she was a widow and always took those flowers to her husband’s grave on Memorial Day.  Yep, that was a big deal and I think Larry and I took the fall for that one.

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 Kindergarten Sue

We played hide and seek a lot.  Dressed up in different costumes and walked up and down the sidewalk getting honked at.  There was a Dairy Queen just a few blocks down from our houses and we went there a lot.

Anyway, to get to the point of this post, the profile that popped up was for a ‘Marilyn’ with the same last name as my former friend.  The profile said she was from Lebanon and still lived in Lebanon.  The profile picture looked nothing like the Marilyn I remember, but that was 69 years ago so time does change things!!

I wrote a Face Book message to her, asking if she was the same person and she came back almost immediately saying she was.  I think this is soooo cool. 

She is currently in North Carolina, but will be home soon and we hope to get together sometime for lunch.  This is either going to be very awkward or a whole lot of fun.  I'll let you know!!