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True Love

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Sisters Sandy and Ellie, Babsie (me, 10 yrs old) with Grandma Becky The first time I fell in love, it was with two boys at the same time. I loved their chubby hands, the way they bounced on my back, stuck their fingers in my ears and blew raspberries in my face. Sixteen-month old twins Todd and Larry Klein were irresistible to me. At the age of ten I was the older woman in their lives. I remember running home after school, throwing my books into my room and tearing into my jeans with such speed that by the time I knocked on Mrs. Klein’s door, beads of sweat covered my forehead. She answered the door looking like a cross between Beulah witch and Gretel, wide-eyed and sleepy. I could hear Todd and Larry banging on the wall and knew they were chomping the wooden slats of their cribs between shrieks. It wasn’t long before I was spending every afternoon in the Klein’s apartment. In 1952 no one needed locked gates at the entrance to anything and parking spaces were plentiful. We lived acr