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My first kiss was so sweet….
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My first kiss was so sweet. I had worked with Zack for some time and he then asked me to sneak out of my house and we would meet in the park. I told him my parents would kill me so we went on walks and stuff and then he was walking me home one day and I should mention, I was wearing a low cut shirt and a denim mini, and then him and I were talking and he bent down and kissed me it was so sweet. Nice and light not all wet but not just muah. Then about a week later we walking again and we walked to the football field and it started poring raining all of a sudden, thin shirts do not work in the rain, and we walked around town a little more, it was still raining with no sign of stopping, we kept walking and went what you would call downtown in a town of 1,000 people and I peeked a look at myself in one of the windows and my shirt was so totally see through. I was so embarrassed. But we are still together for now. I really can’t stand him anymore but I can’t stand to breakup with him. We have been together seen June of 2007. And that is my first kiss and a little more. but if you are ever bored just send me an email at Lexiloo1993 [at] gmail [dot] com Love ya lots, Lexi
My first kiss was so sweet….
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My first kiss was so sweet. I had worked with Zack for some time and he then asked me to sneak out of my house and we would meet in the park. I told him my parents would kill me so we went on walks and stuff and then he was walking me home one day and I should mention, I was wearing a low cut shirt and a denim mini, and then him and I were talking and he bent down and kissed me it was so sweet. Nice and light not all wet but not just muah. Then about a week later we walking again and we walked to the football field and it started poring raining all of a sudden, thin shirts do not work in the rain, and we walked around town a little more, it was still raining with no sign of stopping, we kept walking and went what you would call downtown in a town of 1,000 people and I peeked a look at myself in one of the windows and my shirt was so totally see through. I was so embarrassed. But we are still together for now. I really can’t stand him anymore but I can’t stand to breakup with him. We have been together seen June of 2007. And that is my first kiss and a little more. but if you are ever bored just send me an email at Lexiloo1993 [at] gmail [dot] com Love ya lots, Lexi
Up on simpson street in the…
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Up on simpson street in the bronx we hung out on the rooftops. We would plug in a record player to the hall light and dance on the sticky tar.Sometimes we would climb down to the street via the firescape and many times that top ladder to the roof was ajar from the building and shook enough to send us tumbling to the street below if we did not watch it. On the way down,being Puerto Rican neighborhood we would have to jump over jugs of a formenting drink called mavi.Each landing had a different aroma of pork chops, pastelillos, rice and beans and fried chicken. We would reach the bottom of the back yard starving and we had to be quick because there always was a mean dirty dog named buster waiting to bite someone. We would then go out to the street and play kick the can.ringolivio, stickball, marbles, johnny on the pony, skully or hitch on the back of trucks that we leave us somewhere in long island.A typical day back in the fifties.we had mucho fun.
Fireworks…by the middle…
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Fireworks…by the middle of the afternoon in my neighborhood on Staten Island, South Beach projects you couldn’t even see the smoke was so thick and fireworks were illegal!!!! Actually the fireworks for the 4th usually started going off around June 20th (right after we got out of school) and we’d see all the people coming up from the South (where fireworks were legal) opening up their trunks and selling fireworks to anyone who had money…one summer we bought a mat of firecrackers (144 packs)…I was so tired of them after that!! Blue Angels always few at South Beach every 4th of July and you could see them from the roof of our projects…1976 4th of July was awesome…one of the best other than 1986 when the Statue of Liberty reopened after being renovated…one million people in downtown Manhattan…if you were claustrophobic you would have died! Bud beer being sold out of garbage pails in Chinatown…what a city! I live in California now and would never move back but my childhood was the absolute best! maryfinn
I grew up in the projects…
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I grew up in the projects on Staten Island, South Beach Houses to be exact and we had games for every season especially spring when the weather was warming up. First it would be kite flying time and we’d go to the corner store known as Ma’s or Pa’s or Boff’s for the “second store” and buy our 10-25 cent kite, put it together with rags for a tail and go fly it at the “big park’s” field. Every kid did this, the sky was filled with all different color and shapes of kites! It was awesome. Then came yo-yo season right on the heels of kite flying. We got our Duncan’s out and could do all the tricks; cats cradle, around the world, you name it; we could do it with a little practice. Next came summer and bee catching, yes, bee catching. We would get a glass jar or a coffee can, put some holes in the top for air and go out to the bushes and catch as many bees as we could, there was a hierarchy to the bees too; workers (lowest), queenies (bumble bees) and Shiny hineys (largest bumble bees and the highest) we all kept clear of wasps, those suckers hurt if you got strung…I never got strung, not until I was an adult camping in California by a yellow jacket (damn wasps!). This was followed by the long days and as soon as dusk came we were playing “ringalerio” or “caw, caw”…this can be looked up on this site so you get the rules and the fun! During the day we played skully (also on this site), assball, softball, rode our bikes for 100’s of miles (without helmets and all day with no adults); skated (remember skate keys) played with our spaldeens…one, two, three aleary…”three feet over Germany” (whomever knows about this game please answer, I want to know the history)…Fall arrived and we gathered all the fallen leaves and jumped into the biggest piles of leaves you’ve ever seen, we got cardboard boxes and jumped on the bushes and fell off in heaps…Winter brought sleigh riding near the park and at the cemeteries (we were bordered on 2 sides)…ice skating at Cameron’s pond (watch the thin ice…someone always fell thru)…snow ball fights…oops I forgot about Halloween and egging, shaving cream, and flour socks…little did we know that our hair styles after this would eventually become stylish in the 90’s and 2000’s!!!! Who knew! sorry to go on and on but growing up in the 70’s in New York City projects was the BEST! What about you? Mary