Laurie and me part 1
I was an early reader, and devoured all sort of reading material without much regard to what it was -- my mother's women's magazines, cereal packages, and of course comic books. One day in 1952 when I was very young, I was walking down the street the evening before trash collection in our neighborhood in Los Angeles and spotted a pile of discarded magazines sitting on the ground next to a garbage can. Most of them were sports and automobile magazines, so you can imagine my surprise when...