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“I love it. Thank you.”

I was five when my Dad gave me a box of books.

They were the classics.

Black Beauty. Tom Sawyer. Huck Finn. Treasure Island.

My mom must have told him I liked to read.

I can’t remember books before that, but I remember those twenty or thirty.

I read them all.

And tested at a sixth grade reading level in the first grade.

It made people think I was smart, even though I wasn’t.

Not really.

Just curious.

And I liked stories.

Any kind of story.

I loved watching television. Reading books. I remember two movies from the theaters when I was young.

When I was six and my brother was four, my Mom got free tickets to the Sanger Theater in downtown Pine Bluff.

She took us to see Legend of Boggy Creek.

A movie about Bigfoot attacking people in their homes.

We were terrified.

If my brother and I didn’t share the same bed for years before that, we would have after that night.

The scene that sticks out in my head is a guy or gal sitting on a couch with their back to the window.

A hairy arm crashed through the glass and drags them back through the window.

I didn’t look outside after dark for a long time after that.

The second movie I remember I was seven.

My grandfather gave my five year old brother and I a couple of dollar bills, and my mom dropped us off at the Flick Twin Cinema.

Yes, a seven year old was babysitting a five year old at the movies.

We went to see STAR WARS, and I was hooked on a galaxy far away.

At that time, we had moved back to Arkansas from somewhere.

Atlanta or Birmingham.

The TV we had there didn’t make the trip back.

It wouldn’t fit in my mom’s car.

She was late picking us up from the movies, by a few hours.

But when she did, she took us to the store so we could get a few things for dinner.

I tried to tell her about the movie, but she wasn’t really into sci fi stuff.

She did say we would get a television soon.

On the way to the car, we found a twenty dollar bill in the parking lot.

There was a quick family meeting on how to spend our new found largess.

My brother voted TV. I voted TV. She voted TV.

It was unanimous.

Even though things were cheap back then, you couldn’t buy a TV for $20.

Unless it was used, and I wonder why she didn’t do that?

But then in hindsight, I don’t understand a lot of her decisions.

27 year old single mom of two.

Hell, I don’t understand some of the decisions I made at 27 either.

We took the $20 to a rent to own store and got a 19” color television.

Hooked it up and watched a movie of the week.

And Carson.

I didn’t always stay up late to watch Johnny.

I’d leave my mom and brother and our dog Tipsy in the living room while I went to read in bed.

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