Things I had as a teenager that I don’t have now
In response to a question on Twitter:
- Virginity
- A copy of Fantastic Four #1
- Funky teen boy smell
- Naïveté
- A redhead girlfriend
- A Renault Le Car
- A job at the Atlantic City Press
- A basement
- A rotary phone
- A girlfriend’s broken-off fingernail preserved in a plastic bag hanging on my wall
- An interest in reading science fiction
- The belief that Salvador Dali was a great artist
- An interest in reading Gore Vidal
- Excitement about the movie “Caligula”
- Sixty to eighty years ahead of me
- Living aunts, uncles, and father
- The belief that the kids at school really mattered
- Mononucleosis
May 23rd, 2021 at 6:30 am
Condolences on the loss of your innocence. Was the funeral well-attended?
May 31st, 2021 at 5:45 pm
The rest of my hair and a trimmer waistline. Plus that copy of Fantastic Four #1.