Excerpt from, "My Mother is From Mars..."

...We'd be running around barechested on our rented property, me at least till age eight. Then Mom said, "You're a girl, you need to start covering up..."
     I remember looping around my parents and local neighbor's lounge chairs near our half acre garden. It was where the adults would sit and chat and drink beers or spritzers or both on hot summer weekends. It was the freedom of the sixties.
    I'd run by my Dads chair and to my mother's chagrin I'd ask, "Daddy can I have a sip?"
     He would respond, "Well Jo, just a sip." And he would hand me his can or his bottle of beer.
I'd be so thirsty, and take in a sip and a gulp. Then I'd hear, "Whoa! Young lady. That's enough. "
    I'd respond, "Okay Daddy. Thank you." Then hand him back his beer, and go run around playing tag, freeze tag, or another game of hide and seek with the boys.

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