Gayle Hanks:  

Well who knew after Graduation in 66' and seeing the Beatles in August of 66' which I didn't think was that big a deal but as I remember it ...It was ! The first time I ever saw younger girls than me scream and cry and throw their underpants lipstick and more at them as they were playing... andthen we grew up had a Life and now we are here at this point in our lives wher we creak when walking and need new body parts. Thankfully for 3-D printers, I'll just take a new foot or thumb. I still haven't been able to track down Marilyn Mattson who got me to skip school in 3rd grade and get a maple bar for a nickel at the bakery on Fremont. We went to her house on Evanston and watched soap operas I had never seen before. We did get caught for skipping school and I never did it again until Senior year when jill worked in the attendence office. I got caught there too when she didn't come to school that day either. It's been a long road some rocky some not but it is a long long road we are on. If you get off early you will miss out on all the fun of aches & pain and maybe disease or new body parts. At least we live in a world that has them ! They didn't in 1948 or 1966 You died with what you came into the world with. I lost a friend at age 12 from open heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic. She was 12 I was 13 and that funeral was tearful. She was inthe casket with her Dopey Dog Plush stuffed animal. She was the only girl I ever saw with a stuffed animal in the 1950's I ...Expand for more