Mary Has A Cow

• "How now brown cow"
• train to the shore
• cleaning out the little house at 428
• exploring the closet under the steps in the kitchen at 428
• waiting for everyone to arrive at the shore on Friday nights
• preparing the house for everyone to arrive at the shore on Friday nights (did I just write that?)
• thinking Kakki was a doctor and telling everyone I knew
• taking the train to the hospital (where she was a doctor) to pick up Kakki to go to the shore 

The Girls Respond to Meg's Panhandling

Maureen responds: "Oh that's right - you were that cute you could panhandle for money. Me, they would have arrested for vagrancy. I think you talked about panhandling on the first list. Is that how you earned your money for the summer? I am laughing, yes, out loud and it is great fun!"

Mary responds: "I was laughing out loud also, what fun!!"

Meg says "reminiscing about things is great fun - you girls are so ahead, I am digging deep into my memory trove". (and the sand and other people's pockets for change)

Meg - The Pinball Wizard

• standing at the edge of the ocean and digging our feet in deep, almost up to our knees
• standing on a raft floating over the waves - hey, I was standing up "paddle boarding" without any paddles
• my first pair of sunglasses - they were round with pink rims
• everything in Morrows Nut House
• bumming quarters to play pinball
• using one quarter all night because I'd win, then match, then win, then match, then.........

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Colleen - The Surfer Girl

• beach combing
• surfing
• sand castles
• digging for crabs
• running undercover to the tents on the beach
• hot sand underfoot
• blisters
• climbing rocks on the beach
• walking out on the rocks on the beach into the ocean
• searching for interesting shells in the rocks on the beach
• moss on the rocks on the beach
• pilings in the ocean
• dune grass out
• dune grass in
• Gloria's
• Henri's
• Tarpon
• Shore Bar
• Ugly Mug
• Pilot House
• fishing for blues (that would be bluefish for you amateurs) at night and holding my own
• watching the fireworks on the 4th of July in the middle of the ocean in Joe's fishing boat
• beach tags
• beach tag maneuvers

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Karen Goes to the Zoo at Home

• Stryder, Terry's favorite dog - - as the world traveller of ten siblings, he was sure to have a canine companion
• iguanas in the house, four boys, six sisters and iguanas.....priceless
• chameleons in the house, four boys, six sisters, iguanas and chameleons
• box turtles in the house, four boys, six sisters, iguanas, chameleons and box turtles
• Robin, our cocker spaniel
• mice that travelled from the third floor to the second floor on Perry Street
• "katydids" in the tree in the yard on Perry Street - birds that sang at the same time every evening
• a chicken we got as a pet for Easter and Grandmother cooked for dinner

Karen Goes to College

• Mary Beth waiting at the corner for me after school - she thought I went to college - I was in high school
• Mommy sitting on the sofa in the corner with the newspaper on her lap, snoozing, after dinner
• Little tiny white Missal that I got for my First Communion. It had really thin, crispy pages with god edges
• First Communion greeting cards
• Sitting around the dining room table after Mary Beth was born - we got to pick her name out of a paper bag
• Receiving blankets when a new baby arrived
• Rob and I to the TV studio on City Line Avenue to tape for the Jerry Blavat Show
• Daddy coming home from the hospital after Kevin was born - he told us Kevin had red hair and was going to be named Moishe
• Terry's big, round, beautiful grin coming in after surfing
• Telling people I had nine brothers and sisters
• Mommy and Daddy dancing

Maureen Spies a Sailor on the Sofa, His Ship Ran Aground

• The year Daddy took, at least, seven of us Christmas shopping to Center City for our Mommie's gift. We parked illegally on the side of Wanamakers, did our shopping, bought the brass early American magazine rack, and left for the car. Daddy took the parking ticket off the windshield, and everyone was happy!
• feeling that I could taste the ice in my lungs on frigid, snowy days
• building a snowman, any time of the day or night
• waking to find a sailor in the living room asleep on the sofa - Rob was home on leave - a boy was in the house and he was not related - yippeee
• The Platters
• checking out lots of books from the library and feeling privileged
• reading in the middle of the night with a blanket covering me, the lamp, and the book as I sat on the floor - serenity
• signing yearbooks, signed yearbooks "love ya" "you're my best friend forever" - memories
• Meg going to college - knowledge
• Terry trick or treating with Kevin and Gerald and coming home with 100 pounds of candy himself - full