Tuesday, January 29, 2019

First Beer

First Beer
The High School Days
Merion Mercy Academy
Merion Station, PA
May 1970

I was 14 and in 9th grade.  I didn't take street drugs and I didn't smoke cigarettes; I was afraid of both of these vices.   So I had to do something to solidify some street ratings.  And a beer came my way and I grabbed on tot he opportunity.

We had a sleepover at my all girls, Catholic high schmo.  As Sister Antoinette Maria slept on the Lazy Boy chair, from the gym balcony, six of us were in the locker room, sharing two beers that Dottie Mantini took from her dad's stash in the basement.  The beer was warm and distasteful  but that didn't matter to me.  The rest of my classmates thought we were bad ass.

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