I know she’s out there somewhere
Actually, I don’t know for sure if she’s out there…she could be many years dead and gone for all I know…”She” is Debbie, although she probably became Deborah at some point…the first girl I fell in love with…December 26th is her birthday, today she turns 60 !!! I dunno for sure if it was Love, but it felt like it…I met her sometime in 1969 I think…I was in a band at the time and she was (I think) second cousin to the guitarists in the band (the Abbot brothers)…I fell for her–hard…She fell (hard) for Eddie the Bass player–he ignored her…My parents would drive me out to her house and her parents would bring me back…A quick goodnight peck on the cheek was all she ever got from me, which is more than I got from her…My parents brought her with us to Nag’s Head NC in the summer of 1970…I wish now that they hadn’t…She and I went to the Howard County Fair either that same year or the year before…we were followed by her apparent boyfriend–THAT wasn’t fun…
Eventually she went off to Frostburg State College…I had a pile of letters, kept them for the longest time…In my head she looks like Gloria Steinem, but she could look like Roseanne Barr for all I know…
Perhaps it’s best to try to BE HERE NOW, so I’ll work on that…I don’t have the energy to try to find her after 40 years…I don’t know her Mother’s name, or how to spell Abbott correctly–Abott would be the married name of her best friend Sharon Lutz, IF her and David were still married that is…like I said, not nearly enough energy to be a detective…I wonder if she’s ever thought of me…