For a chubby little (but not to remain so in comparison with my contemporaries) boy who didn't always quite feel like he 'fit in', I was extremely comfortable and quite content with those other aspects, situations, or 'worlds' to which I would retreat when I was ostracized. Not that I was literally or frequently ostracized by my peer group throughout childhood, let me must say that I did not feel that I always BELONGED.
I had what I considered to be a reasonable number of friends in whose company I reveled many a long, hot summer afternoon. Timmy Buckley, from two doors away in our block of row-homes in the Eastern part of Baltimore County just past the city-line, my BEST friend. But I also enjoyed the company of, singly or sometimes in groups with various of them, the three Bodell brothers, Keith Smith, Jimmy Theiss, Joey Markwordt and on occasion, Ronald Weber. Never a greedy person, I thought then as I do now, that this was a sufficient number of friends. And they were good friends on whom I could rely for some good, old-fashioned kid-play. Later, in school, new friendships would develop and likewise some of the older ones would dissolve. But such is the way of the world. Right?
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