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The affair with Delicate was brief, a couple of weeks in September I think, but then Smitty my near-best friend got jealous because now that I liked her, he suddenly liked her although formerly he liked cousin Candy.
O he was nasty. We walked around town with him for an hour one evening while he said all sorts of mean and nasty things and neither Delicate or myself could stand up to him, and I suppose that's when that - my one-only affair - ended.
There was an evening party at Delicate's house that winter. She lived on the lake west across the south shore from myself and it was an ice skating party with at least a dozen kids there. But it was cold - 15 below zero and dropping, and I stayed out on the ice too long showing off. I was a good ice skater and froze one ear lobe, so going into the house finally and sitting by the heater or the smoking wood fire flame, I discovered that I could ring the water out of my ear lobe when it thawed. After that with my ears, I had to be careful of cold weather and deep water.
Smitty was bold. He could talk to girls and he could proposition them. Other than the Dandy cousins, there were no girls in town our age except two Diane and Donna, and I think they were also cousins, but they were watched very closely by their parents and didn't get out much somewhat homely.
Once we had broken into a vacant house on the lake Pickerel Point and made it our club-house. It was over-grown and inside fully furnished having been left exactly as it was the day the woman of the house, the wife died.
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