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Nice meeting you, too! Isn't it amazing what we can remember...

...from a very young age?

I have snatches of memory of being rolled along Ohio Avenue (in my hometown of Anderson, Indiana) in a sit-up stroller while my mom is making up some little song as she goes along about strolling down the avenue.

This had to be before I was 1 1/4 years old, because that was when we bought our farm and moved out of the apartment house on the northwest corner of Ohio and Bronnenberg (we lived on the ground floor in Apt. #2 that faced Bronnenberg with a side door that faced north).

I also have memories of sticking my finger in the hinge part of the refrigerator door just to see what it felt like when the door closed (I thought it would feel as if the refrigerator were kissing me--and ended up being exposed to a very rude reality!).  I'd just assumed that I was older when this happened until I found a letter from my mom to my grandpa saying how she'd accidentally shut the door on my finger and how bad she felt--and it was written when we still lived at the apartment.  I was sure to tell her that she didn't neglect me by shutting the door on my finger--that I'd put it in there to see what it felt like.

God Bless!
AJ

Do you think Santa
will leave
switches & coal
for me
since I wrote
such an ornery
parody
of
The 12 Days Of Christmas
!?!

posted by Ainsley_Jo_Phillips on December 6, 2005 at 10:48 PM | link to this | reply

I was 2 years old when Kennedy was murdered.

I have a vague memory of the television being on, and I saw horses on the screen. I had a wordless feeling that the "big people" were very upset about something.

I know now that I was seeing Kennedy's funeral.

Nice to meet you. God's blessings to you.

posted by songbirdshafer on December 5, 2005 at 10:57 PM | link to this | reply