being very young; the late 1950s; the 1960s; the very early 1980s; pretty music; sad love songs; 1950s and early 1960s music; good-looking (i.e., short) shorts; personally-signed letters; the smell of leaves burning in drums in the Fall; golden Summer afternoons and evenings playing badminton in the backyard; seeing the world with a child's wide eyes; my old friends; days of yore; the great cars of the 1960s (especially the '65s); lazy Sunday drives in the country; real New Jersey diners (with real banana cream pies); Gavriles (soda fountain); Cook's (Laurel) Hardware; my Clarksville Middle School years; Scaggsville Elementary School; Noxzema Brushless Shave Cream; Old El Paso Spanish Rice (canned); Crosse & Blackwell Date Nut Bread; Duofold dual-layer knit boxer shorts underpants (the best); seeing Made in America; stationery stores; Rodney Dangerfield; the pretty gals in the 1960s and 1970s; Woodward & Lothrop; Ideal Toy; Remco; double features; frozen custard shops...