Birthday girl

The little girl in the above photo is the daughter of my friend Janet Tanglewood and her husband Wendell H. Ford, Jr. in Chicagoland. I have never seen the girl, who is now probably four years old. She is a beautiful child, innocent. She looks to have a future of amorousness and good hearted deviousness evident in her bewitching eyes and turned up nose. (for more information on her probable ancestors see www.bewitched.net)

The story of my friendship and one time romance with Janet dates back to when we met at a park near Howard and McCormick in Skokie, IL. She was a freshman at Regina Dominican High School and I was a freshman at Niles West High School. Janet had manners, class and knew table etiquette. She was schooled in an elite girls school on the North Shore and picked up many snobbish tastes in clothes, art and movies tempered by a great sense of humor. She wore L’air du Temps perfume and clear cherry lip gloss

My family moved to NJ two years after I met Jacque and the next year I went off to school in Boston University. We always remained friends though, and still talk almost every week.

I regretted never marrying her, and still to this day have dreams about her a couple of times a week.