Patricia Surrey:  

I remember Ft Hamilton like it was yesterday;like I could just stroll down 83rd street, through the gates and sitting there on the boys gym steps would be the old morning gang. Would they know me now? Would I know them? I would prefer to get their views on what it all meant. All the waiting and the work. Was it worth it? All I knew was I wanted out. What a fool! Truly those were the best days of my life. High school would be the time I would go back to if I could. When I watch Peggy Sue Got Married it really hits a nerve. All the things I wanted to be never happened. I work in a box. At least it's a box by a window. (sigh) But while I have grown up a lot and am lest arrogant, less naive, I am still sensitive and kindhearted. I still care deeply. I'm just realistic about life now. But reality is not the stuff of dreams. I miss some of my teachers. So many of my friends are dead or simply gone. I can still see their young faces so close to mine. I never left Brooklyn. Never traveled. I'm phobic about flying and I don't drive so I don't really go anywhere. That sounds al...Expand for more