age 8 or 9......eyes wide open...
seriously thin with my grandfather's
giant elephant ears, which i was
somewhat sensitive about....
the big ears were appropriate
for my hyper-vigilant persona.

p.s. notice the dark mole on my neck..
a few years after this, my next door neighbor,
Oralee Kottas bit it off! this strange incidence,
the "mole removal by teeth" was followed by my
tying Oralee to a giant hay archery target and
attempting to shoot arrows around her while the
6' target rolled down a grassy hill.....yes! that
actually happened, strangely enough.....Well, I HAD
just seen Richard Green, as Robin Hood, split his opponent's
arrow at dead center of a much smaller target...and at far
greater distance! I was a comfirmed Locksleyite!
The wild eyes weren't for nothing, Angelina!