I've Always Loved Summer Best, or August
When I was born to celebrate my father actually bought a duplex beach house with his college roommate Solly Stein in Woodmont, Connecticut on the Jewish beach rocky Long Island sound Italians next door their beach was sand we weren't a beachy family my mother did have sun dresses library books big straw hat my father went into the water every single night after work breast stroke and crawl my brother was the only one who got a real dark tan I was happier there than anywhere best friend Abby Glazer few doors down we would wander in a way i hadn't wandered before didn't need much she was a very good swimmer I was OK not great I would carry a little notebook make up stories about her swimming about our neighbor Joanie Mendleson I would find husbands for Joanie in so many stories. At night I'd sit on the sea wall in front of our house and know Tomorrow I could do it all again.