Tales of a Young Male Hominid

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Time, it moved so fast, those days are over now
We've all gone our separate ways but still somehow
I often need to telephone and talk to you
To see if you remember things the way I do
It won't be too much longer till we'll be old and gray
Winding up our travels here on life's highway
But no matter where I roam I've got you here with me
When I reminisce these childhood memories.

Iris DeMent

Don't get the wrong idea and think these Tales have played through my head over and over again on an endless loop for all these years gone by. Not so. Oh, maybe some of them have always been not too far below the surface. But most of them are here now only by slowly condensing out of the fog of my distant memory. One memory tends to beget another and pretty soon, by golly, there is a whole story in my working consciousness.

So, I decided to jot some of these down. For posterity. And for fun. Because that's just the kind of hominid I am. The Tales cover the time period from 1963 to 1969 and are basically in chronological order, with an occasional exception. They should be read in the order presented.

And don't pass up my "Links of a Young Male Hominid". They can either be checked out before reading the Tales to help set the mood, during for clarification of some obscure reference, or after for further reading. Or anytime for fun. I'll let you decide which is best.

And like Iris DeMent says, "To see if you remember things the way I do", I am really curious about that, too. Not only for sentimental reasons but also for analytical accuracy. The truth may obscure the facts and vice versa. I had to do a lot of guessing and implying sometimes to come up with complete thoughts from my dim and fractured memories.

So what do you say, my fellow Mary Todd compatriots? Did I get these stories about right? Are these how YOU remember things?

Tales of a Young Male Hominid
1.	Mary Todd
2.	Fireball XL5
3.	Who Do You Have?
4.	The New Girl
5.	Baptism of Mud
6.	Das Boot
7.	The All Volunteer Army
8.	Tunnels, Rockets, and Monkey Tree #1
9.	All Cars Don't!
10.	Adventure!
11.	A Painful Step
12.	Tommy Who?
13.	The Party's Over
14.	The Find
15.	The Gesture
16.	The Head Wound
17.	Punt
18.	Kathy's Clown
19.	Acting!
20.	The Mother Of All Forts
21.	Team Yankee
22.	Childhood's End
23.	Epilogue

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