dsi1 wrote:
>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> dsi1 wrote:
>> >
>> >I used to make fruitcake with my mom. It was the only activity that we did together.
>> >These days I don't make fruitcake but I'm glad that I got to spend that time with
>> >my mom because it was our time exclusively.
>>
>> That's very weird, are you certain that was your mother... I did more
>> activities with my mom than I can think of all at once... we cooked
>> many things together practically every day, we'd go out to eat
>> together, we went to movies together, we visited lots of museums,
>> zoos, and botanical gardens, and a lot more together, broadway shows,
>> concerts, even the planetarium. Are you saying you didn't watch TV
>> with your mom... who helped with your school homework? For as far
>> back as I can remember my mome read to me every night, she taught me
>> to read, by the time I was three years old I was reading at today's
>> high school level. In 1949 my mom bought me a complete 24 volume set
>> of Britannica, before I was ten years old I read every word cover to
>> cover, including the atlas.
>
>I don't really remember much about my childhood.

How sad... perhaps your childhood was so reprehensible that you coped
by blocking it out... you probably spent your childhood hidden away in
a tiny basement/attic room.