– After that, my confidence in strangers diminished.
The bicycle delivered me to-and-fro until the weather changed, and the snowy, windy, 6-month Lake Erie winter arrived.
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– After that, my confidence in strangers diminished.
The bicycle delivered me to-and-fro until the weather changed, and the snowy, windy, 6-month Lake Erie winter arrived.
– because it was there—our Mt. Everest.
We never formally identified the squealer who called the police, but the local constabulary turned up in the form of Skippy Brown, a favorite local enforcer of the law.
– Nothing would deter us from enjoying our well-earned evening out.
Ash-gray script swirled across the textured buff pages like hazy clouds crossing the sky at dusk.
– “Let’s do it ourselves.”
I punched button after button, painstakingly input the titles of programs using that archaic alphabetical system and ended up in some endless inescapable loop.
– “You’ve got to do something about this,” they jibed him.
Of course, later they told their kids that they loved us all. Usually they added, “despite the headaches you caused us.”
— I respected the officer and assumed he would also respect me.
This was not just the assassination of the President; it was the death of hopes and dreams.
— whatever enlisted men played, or claimed to play, an instrument
An order came down to me to have the band looking sharp, sounding good, and ready to lead the parade.
– “I’ll take care of this, Honey.”
Eleanor and I dragged our stocky, dark, wooden desk chairs up to our door to peer over the open transom at the long hall.
– After that, my confidence in strangers diminished.
The bicycle delivered me to-and-fro until the weather changed, and the snowy, windy, 6-month Lake Erie winter arrived.
