mary
was my first girlfriend. we met each other at a hockey game. she liked
me and i liked her but we were too afraid to tell each other so we
just talked to each other on the phone for TWO YEARS! i lived in hanover
park, she lived in schaumburg and we thought we lived so far from
each other, but one day the farmer cut a little farm road and we realized
that we lived exactly ONE mile away from each other. it wasnt until
her dad got a transfer to san francisco that i decided it was time
to make the move. first i took her to see "wargames" but
that movie was so good that i totally forgot to make any move, so
the next week we went to see steve martin's "the man with two
brains". back then i was really superstitious and i told myself
that if there was a good song on the radio (a certain impossibility)
then that meant that it was a sign from Above to go for it. well we
were parked outside her house and tom petty's breakdown came on and
i went for it and all was well in the suburbs. when she moved i wrote
every day and looked at this picture maybe thirty times a day.