mosses monday: II

i was out in my front yard with maggie several weeks ago when my neighbor's daughter, janie, came over and started talking... she asked how my mom was doing (she was a year behind my mom in school and was good friends with her). i answered that she was fine.

out of nowhere, janie proceeded with, "dani, she never got over mike moss; did she???"

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my mom was a local beauty queen, bathing suit model, and an artist. mike moss was a very handsome, only child, rebel without a cause. he was several years older than my mom; but most of my mom's friends were closer to his age than her own. mike had already started college when my mother was just a freshman in high school.

mike's parents, the mosses, were enamored with my mother. they thought she was a kind, well mannered, beautiful young girl. the only thing i ever remember my grandmother say about mike was that he was "too pretty to be a boy". my grandmother loved mike moss...
(i think all the women did.)

mike moss was a charmer.

he liked the female persuasion as well; and news of his extra-curricular dating while away at school made its way back to my mom, who in turn broke up with mike. even though, he made it known that she would return to him one day...

(to be continued...)

love and blessings,
dani xx

ps you will find earlier entries in ascending order on my side bar entitled, "our love story":)