Earliest Memory

I have long retained a memory from early childhood. I was just over 2 years old. We lived on Cleveland street in East Nashville. I recall that our house was one among a row of houses separated by a hedge. Our next door neighbor had a little girl slightly older than I. My one memory is of me sneaking through he hedge and seeing her playing on a blanket in her yard. I recall that she would not let me play with her on her blanket until I removed my shoes.

I recently found this photo in a box of old photos. That is me on the left but I cannot say for sure whether the little girl is the neighbor next door or not.

Maybe that event was a sign of things to come since I eventually married the girl next door, in a manner of speaking.

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