Just because Spo and Penguin and John and Dodd are doing it...
My earliest memory – cooking with my maternal
grandmother in her kitchen, 1959
First airline flight – 1970; high school trip to
Europe; JFK to geneva, switzerland
First time "doing it” – 1972, age 19 with my first real
boyfriend; awkward
First surgery – tonsils, age 6, 1960
First car – ford pinto; high school graduation gift,
1972; blue and white two-tone; my parents had a death wish for me
First death of someone close – my maternal uncle,
1968, due to cancer; he was only 38. I
didn’t find out until 1988 that he was gay
First drink – my maternal grandmother kept some
mogen david concord grape wine (horrible shit) in the dining room sideboard;
she “had a snort” when she couldn’t sleep
First regret – not marrying my first real boyfriend in 1973
First pet – Sydney, my first rescue cat, 1991
First presidential election – 1972; george mcgovern
First time you felt you were an adult – when I moved
out of the parents’ house in 1977; I was 23
First job – 1970, cashier in a local (small) mom-n-pop
variety store; dusting the fucking glass shelves was THE WORST
First realization of the axiom “life is not fair” –
being bullied at school and at home
Losing my virginity – 1977, age 23; some unknown guy;
never saw him again; I DO remember he was a ginger boy with a beard!
First house – 1985, a one bedroom condo in northern
Virginia with my now ex-husband; I held that mortgage until 1999, when I sold
the condo to move back to philly
First camera – polaroid swinger, late 1960s
First checkbook – age 23, to pay the rent on my
apartment
Passing my driving test at age 18
(1971)
First 45 record – “get off my
cloud”, rolling stones
First record album – “rubber soul”,
beatles
First cigarettes - in college 1972-1976; never got hooked
First (and only) divorce - 1991; ex-husband went on to remarry and have 6 kids; he's an idiot