TONSILS

Had coffee with my friend Mary Lou today and we discussed how taking out tonsils was a rite of passage in our generation. Usually this was done at age 4 or 5. Mary Lou and her older brother had theirs out on their kitchen table. Mine was at a hospital and I stayed over night. My mom told me she took me home (I was 4 yr. old) and she warned the older kids not to feed me anything. She fixed spaghetti and Ace, Paul and Patt took theirs to the front porch to eat. A little while later she was looking for me and lo and behold there I was on the front porch scarfing down pasta. Mom knew at that point she had a pastaholic on her hands.