The year is 1960 and I'm 14 years old. I just made a new friend, Mary, and we get along well. She is teaching me the finer points of smoking and I take to it like a fish to water. One day I decide to skip school in the afternoon...this is easy to do as my parents both work and I have no siblings to tattle. What I didn't know at the time was that my new friend, Mary, hadn't attended school for months. In those days the truant officers skulked around- looking for big time criminals like us and he... read more
