"I never had any friends later on, like the ones I had when I was twelve... Jesus.... does anyone?" - Stand By Me

That line from the movie Stand By Me is a perfect reflection of me at age twelve. It was 1975 and I was in sixth grade. That was the year that I met my best friend. He's on the front row, far left, I'm third from the right with those really cool pants on.

Being twelve in a small town in 1975 was golden. We were just old enough to ride bikes all over town by ourselves and just young enough to not need a job or any heavy responsibilities. Our parents didn't worry about abductions and we were free to roam from neighborhood to neighborhood.

That year in school we had a really great teacher and our core gang was made up of five guys, two ten year olds and and three twelve year olds. All of us lived right on Broadway street with me living the furthest west. Our school, also on Broadway, was an old brick two story structure named after President McKinley. At that time, pre-political correctness, we were known as the McKinley Bombers. Read more...

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