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The year 1954....I am on the right and on the left is some guy named "Marshal Turpin", who, at the time, I really didn`t like much at all because he was the "neighborhood bully", so to speak...He was two years my senior, and I was age eleven in this photo...I was in the sixth grade at Lincoln Elementary School, in Pomona, California, at the time...Terry Densley, my very first, real friend, who I met in 1951 and who lived on the same block as I did in Pomona, on Kenoak Drive, was taking this photo...He was just a little guy, the same age as me, only he had to go to a Catholic school, which was much more strict than regular public schools, where I attended school...This Marshal Turpin guy sort of just moved in and took over everything, including my friend, Terry, which I didn`t like at all and sort of came between myself and Terry and was sort of an instigator and trouble maker..He also would humiliate me and make fun of me in front of my friend, Terry, and make me have doubts about my self worth as a human being...This photo was taken in front our garage at 404 W. Alvarado strret, in Pomona, Calif., our second residence in Pomona, after moving from 418 Kenoak Drive in Pomona, which, of course, was our first residence..Terry`sfamilythen moved into our former house on Kenoak Drive after we moved to this Alvarado location...I might have my arm around this Marshal guy in this photo, but that was his idea, not mine...And it surely wasn`t because I liked this guy..that also was his bike in the photo...So there is a lot of trivia for you to digest.....

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