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SUMMER READING / DURING MY TWELFTH summer, each excursion I made into the world of adults was foUowed by an even deeper retreat into myself. Learning about sex was one of those excursions. It began foUowing a Little League baseball game, during which my brother, Jamie, sat on the bench whUe I sat beneath a tree with my nose in a book--as it would be most of the summer. Joy Adamson's Born Free and Carson McCuUers' A Member of the Wedding interested me much more than basebaU. After the game, my mother, my Uttle brother, John, and I were in the car Ustening to the radio while Jamie and my father, the assistant coach, packed the equipment. The disc jockey joked about the rhythm of a song he had just played (I remember neither the song nor the joke). He quipped that if the number of chUdren they had was any measure, Bobby and Ethel Kennedy apparently had no rhythm at aU. My mother found this amusing and observed that ever since the debut of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In--a risqué television program she never missed--people could say anything on the air. When I asked her what was so
The Missouri Review – University of Missouri
Published: Oct 5, 1993
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