Weird Memories from My Childhood
What I'm going to write about happened during WW II when I was a kid. Recently I remembered two girls that went to my grammar school that I thought were beautiful and rather mysterious. Their names were Lillian and Lorena, though they went by Sugar and Pee Wee. To me they looked like the enchanted fairies right out of the lovely illustrated books I liked to read. Both had very light blonde hair and were thin and rather wistful. Lorena wore what looked like a part dress to school, one that was too small for her. (Back in the day, we wore the same dress to school for a week, and changed into play clothes when we came home. And yes, girls had to wear a dress.) One day, Lorena, who was in my class invited me to her house for lunch. I always took my lunch--the same thing every day--half a baloney sandwich and half a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a banana or other fruit, and 3 cookies. When I arrived at her home, which perched on the hillside behind the school (an area I w...