Most Important Day

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Everyone has milestone days in their life that change the direction of their life, for better or worse, things like the day you got married, the day that you bought a house, or the day that your children were born. These are all important days in my life, but the single most important day in my life happened before I was 10 years old. My Mom and step Dad separated on the summer after my eleventh birthday, so this happened when I was either 9 or 10 years old. Like many of my early developmental events (see Leopard Print Bikini) this happened while we were on vacation in Florida. We were visiting my Uncle Larry and Aunt Alice for a few days on our way down to Disney World. They weren’t really my Aunt and Uncle they were my Mom’s friends (this becomes important in a few sentences). Uncle Larry was doing pretty well for himself. He was a salesman at Xerox and spent quite a bit of money on his hobbies and toys. Back when calculators were the size of the Manhattan yellow pages, and could only add, subtract, multiply and divide and cost several hundred dollars each, Larry had three. Needless to say Alice didn’t have to work and stayed home most of the day. However she did have a part time job as a crossing guard for a nearby school. Now Alice was an attractive woman … Ok she was HOT … anyway when she left the house every morning and afternoon in her dark navy blue skirt uniform with badge and mirrored sunglasses … Well that was about as close as a 10 year old boy could come to having a dominatrix fantasy … But I digress … So Uncle Larry comes home from work on Tuesday afternoon, and we plan to go to the Planetarium. How do I remember it was Tuesday? Back when I was a kid, ABC used to have the 4:30 movie every afternoon, and sometimes they would have theme weeks. This particular week happened to be ‘Planet of the Apes Week’, and I had just finished watching Beneath Planet
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