BOYS TO MEN

JOHNNY B. I took to my senior prom that last year in high school, 1958. The Four Freshman played their soothing dance tunes .
Johnny had been "kicked out" of the Punahou dorm, the year before, for smoking and he was from Maui so his parents made him leave and finish school in a public school there. He had graduated 1957 and came back over to Oahu for the prom. After the dancing, we scurried out and drove in his corvette to Waikiki where all the real action was happening on PAU ST. There was a party and beer and loud music...smoking...puff puff away (Marlboros)
After that, Johnny joined the Marine Corp Reserves and left for San Diego. I think he was just too much for his "missionary" parents. They probably bribed him.
I go off to Arizona to college and he decides that he will join me in Arizona when he finishes his duty..Fortunately or unfortunately, I dont' know, he signs up with the wrong school. He ends up in Tempe, hours aways....(and he didn't know I was having the time of my life without him)

He would drive up to Flagstaff with a buddy and we would double date...go to the Museum Club and other bars...drink and actually get sick a few times. He was a wild one too. One time on Oahu, we were on a date seeing a movie at the drive-inn theater and he just pulled out, with speakers and all.....just for fun. We used to drag race in his corvette down at Sandy Beach at night...it was crazy.

The first semester of my second year at Arizona State, my father found out he had lung cancer. I went home to help my mother and my grandmother take care of him. He was gone in six months. The last month, we each took 8 hour shifts taking care of him every day and night at Queens Hospital. I will never ever regret those times I spent with him. I was working in between shifts back at the International Marketplace job and making money to hopefully continue college.
I was able to.

I flew back via California where my cousins lived and then took a flight to Phoenix where Bruce ended up meeting me to drive back to Flagstaff. He claimed he had an important meeting there and it wouldn't be any trouble or hanky panky...

When I stepped of that plane in Phoenix, I was in excruciating pain on my tail bone..I couldn't sit..and Bruce took me to a doctor there who sliced a cyst and gave me a rubber pillow for the ride back to Flag. As this interupted his time there, we had to get a hotel room and leave the next morning...the worst part was that my cyst filled up again and Bruce had to drain it. I figured if any guy could do this and not get grossed out, he was a pretty good one. We drove the next day direct to the Flagstaff hospital where I had some minor surgery. Now, Bruce was in my good favor but I still wasn't really very interested in him as a boyfriend. Now this was getting a bit complicated. Bob F. was gone. Johnny was hours away. Bruce was begging.
It didn't last long though. I had to quit as money had run out. This was now a MOVE that would change my whole future.

Little would I have ever guessed this stupid decision would be the CREATION of the rest of my life.