| (Part Eight)(Concerning: Chick Evens, Nancy Pit, and | | | | marriages lasted the longest, those who married |
| Girls, 1964) | | | | outside vanished in a much shorter time. Perhaps there |
| In Two Pieces | | | | is something to that. |
| Chick Evens lived with his mother and Grandfather to | | | | The Girls |
| the age of eighteen, the Grandfather being of Russian | | | | David Myers, would marry one of the neighborhood |
| stock, with a peculiar pallid complexion. The house in | | | | girls (and it would last to the end of his days, a |
| which they lived stood on an embankment with huge | | | | forty-year marriage), by the name of Nancy, and |
| trees beyond where the garage was, in Donkeyland. | | | | Roger would marry a girl from outside the |
| And Ernest Manning had a daughter Jill, and Jill had a | | | | neighborhood and bring her inside of it (that didn't last). |
| friend Nancy Pit. And it was the summer of 1964, and | | | | And Jill Manning would marry someone outside of the |
| they met that summer; Nancy was one year older | | | | neighborhood, and good for her, she was getting a bad |
| than Chick, and her parents were from Hibbing, | | | | reputation in Donkeyland. Oh she didn't do anything any |
| Minnesota, she was of Irish stock, as was Evens, Irish | | | | of the guys wasn't doing, but she was doing it, and |
| and Russian. | | | | started doing it at a young age. And there was Pizza |
| At this point in time, Evens' life was like a tiny if not | | | | Face, and everyone was screwing her, so it seemed, |
| modest volcano that lies silent, but could abruptly shoot | | | | and she was laughing at everyone, and she was as |
| out fire. No, he wasn't quite like that-he was more like | | | | ugly as the top of a pizza. Evens had never seen her, |
| loose cannon, rolling around freely on a ship in a storm, | | | | and had asked, "Why is everyone screwing her, and |
| subject to outbursts, one who walks among his fellow | | | | calling her such an ugly name?" and Roger and Doug |
| men with that strange and uncanny state of affairs on | | | | took Chick Evens to the corner of Cayuga Street, |
| his face, eyes staring and mind seemingly in a tugging | | | | waited for her to ride by, and when this young girl rode |
| mode. | | | | by on her bicycle, one of the two said to Evens, "Well, |
| He was similar to that, built with smooth and rolling | | | | what do you think?" and Evens replied, "I understand |
| muscles, only that this new visitation that descended | | | | now..." he replied, but he couldn't understand why they |
| upon him Nancy Pit, was a mental and not a physical | | | | were screwing her, if that is what they thought of her. |
| thing and she seemed to quiet his insides. He was | | | | But in time, and through maturity, he'd learn, even an |
| beset by ideas they could be in love, the idea of love, | | | | ugly duckling, as long as she was female, had |
| not sure if it was really his idea, but it could come to | | | | something someone wanted; and the only other |
| near uncontrollable states. Words rolled and tumbled | | | | prerequisite was patience. |
| from his mind, but never came out of his mouth. A | | | | Vicky Schultz, also got that same kind of reputation like |
| strange grin came upon his face when they lay | | | | Jill, but somehow got out of Dodge, before she was |
| together over upon Indians mound, in the high grass on | | | | scorned to death. Evens used to go over to her |
| an Indian blanket, the edges of her lips seemed to | | | | house, back in 1958 thru 1960, she was a few years |
| paralyze his face, she actually glistened in the moon's | | | | older, and wasn't a bad looking girl, and they both took |
| light. She wanted to make love, but Evens feared he'd | | | | a liking for one another. As did Kathleen Bird, Big |
| get her pregnant, and end up having to marry her. And | | | | Bopper's sister, during the High School years at |
| although that wasn't a bad idea, at his age there'd be | | | | Washington High. She was a nice looking girl, and had |
| no escape. The excited girl breathed into his face, | | | | spunk, and a nice shape, she might have been an inch |
| peered into his eyes, milled upon his chest with a | | | | taller than him, if not the same size as Evens, but |
| shaking body, pretty much demanding and compelling | | | | kisses was all that arose from that relationship, and a |
| attention, and she got all of that, but not consummated | | | | long term friendship. |
| love, in its complete form, and I would guess, her | | | | And Larry married Jennie St. John, and Mouse married |
| hormones were going wild. | | | | Jackie St. John, and Sam, Larry's younger brother-thin |
| In those days the neighborhood was full of girls and | | | | as a bean, mellow, married another Nancy, who lived |
| Evens was doing his share of dating once Nancy Pit | | | | on Cayuga Street, across from their home. And Sid, |
| had gone back to her hometown. She would within a | | | | who had been dating Eva, had stopped and was |
| few years, marry and have children, and Evens would | | | | dating some woman outside of the neighborhood |
| never see her again. It would be, eighteen months, and | | | | named Jody, a short Italian looking girl, with big hug |
| he'd meet Barb Ergot, and they'd date for a summer | | | | breasts, too huge for that little body of hers, and during |
| season, and she'd join the neighborhood gang, and | | | | their separation, he went out one evening with two |
| they'd marry for fifteen months, and that would be the | | | | other guys to Hudson Wisconsin, driving back from to |
| end of that marriage. It would seem, looking back, | | | | St. Paul, all three drunk as skunks, got themselves killed. |
| those who married from the neighborhood, their | | | | |