When I was a little girl I loved to play with paper dolls. My first dolls were cut out of catalogs which came in the mail.We would find the people with underwear and cut them out. Then we would match the dresses, pants, coats and what other clothes we wanted to those models.
My older sisters bought me some Dagwood and Blondie paper dolls, which were a delight. I started a collection of paper dolls from catalogs as well as store bought. I loved the Lana Turner doll as well as Gene Tierney. I also had a book of paper doll babies. I loved babies, whether real, dolls, or paper.
The dolls I liked the most were the ones I cut from catalogs. I always named my paper dolls. I pretended to have twins, a boy and a girl. My favorite names for the twins were, Judith Kay and Johnny Keith. I thought if I ever had twins, I'd name them that.
What a surprise it was, when I went to high school and met a handsome red head with a fantastic physique, whose name was Johnny Keith. I thought it must have been a sign. At first we just talked and walked from the restaurant, where everyone gathered before school, to school. He was a basketball player and when I could get to the games, I was thrilled to watch and maybe we could have some time after the game to be together. It all depended on how late it was and how I was going to get home. We would sit in the restaurant and have a coke or go for a ride in someone's car.
We began going steady when I was fourteen and he was fifteen. We had a study hall together and we would hold hands and whisper. The teacher, an old maid, fussed at us and said we should be doing somethin beneficial. She wanted me to go practice typing and him to go practice basketball. After that semester we were never together in any class or study hall. I guess they didn't fancy first love.
There were many ups and downs in our relationship, which will be in a later blog, but true love won, even though it could have started from an imaginary paper doll, named Johnny Keith.
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