Showing posts with label Detroit Lakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Detroit Lakes. Show all posts

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Dec. 30, 2007



Mother and I moved from New York City to Detroit Lakes MN when my father died at the age 36. She eventually remarried a local men's clothing salesman and I was no longer an only child. Jack, four years older than me, and Sandra, my age, became my siblings in one quick ceremony. Although we barely knew each other, Sandra and I taught each other to slow dance to Doris Day records.

Dec. 28, 2007

Dec. 28, 2007
In the waning years of WW II, we were living in Rockville Center, Long Island, I was about 12 and dad was dying of a brain tumor. Mom said NYC was no place for a widow to bring up a child, so she packed us up and we took a train to her childhood home in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. That's where she met and married this widower. He was a clothing salesman and outdoorsman.

Dec. 27, 2007

Dec. 27, 2007
Hamburger at Petes Place

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