OUR COVER GIRL

Over The Years

by Julie (13-M-7) FPE

These hands, this heart: These hands, when those of a lad did all the things that caused panic and frustration to his mother. This heart, when then of a lad, coupled with these hands, did the things that caused happiness and serenity to his mother. Do you get the picture?

Even

in those days, as I look back now, I can see a complete dual personality in myself.

Now I don't mean to write a book on my life history, and make it sound like the life of nearly every one of you, but then if I'm truthful it will sound like just that, so I'll try to slip around and cover only a few of the things that may cross my mind at the time.

First, and for the record, I did have TV tend- encies long before puberty. Even before school age, at my first recollection of events, I longed for the role in life of the little girls known to me. At the age of six I asked my mother to let me go to church Halloween party wearing girls things. I even described then things I wanted to wear to her, and she did borrow some for me, from a friend of the family; nearly exactly to my discription. I don't remember why, but we didn't get to go to that party, and the clothes were returned. That was probably the first in a long series of heart breaks I was to know.

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