Reply #91: ten things [View All]

[Mandate My Ass]

1. My maternal great grandparents' marriage was arranged. He was small and slight, she was tall and Rubenesque. By all accounts they were blissfully happy and had 14 children.

2. I saw Santa and his reindeer outside my bedroom window when I was six years old. I'm as convinced now as I was then that I really saw him.

3. I had my son when I was 18 years old.

4. My maternal grandfather was a successful vaudeville and off Broadway dancer but gave it up to become a house painter and day laborer during the depression. :-(

5. I was an animal midwife as a child. My mother could never turn away a stray but they must have sensed her squeamishness because they always sought me out when they were in labor. The most memorable was when our dog Lady woke me in the middle of the night and gave birth to 13 puppies, all of whom lived.

6. When under stress I still have godawful nightmares about not attending my high school graduation.

7. I was once fluent in Latin.

8. In seventh grade I came in third in the Philadelphia Archdiocesan spelling bee.

9. In between husbands I had a brief but hot affair with a guy I used to babysit as a teenager. Luckily, we're still very good friends.

10. I can touch my heels to the back of my head with ridiculous ease but cannot get my forehead anywhere near my knees and have to strain a bit to touch my toes.