(For a few weeks now I have been collecting Steve Stories
for a Book of Steves. So far everyone I’ve asked has a Steve
story except Collette who decided to call her Bill story Steve.
For consistency’s sake.)
Many people had a first boyfriend or a second,
including me, who was some variation of Steve.
Mine was Stephen Orlofsky who was Older by
3 years I was in seventh grade and he was a junior
at Stuyvesant High School. He rented the beach house
next door one summer and read Carl Sandburg to me
on the seawall. His sister’s name was Ellen. She was
my age. I wore a neon bikini and one day Ellen
said, about my bikini top, in one of those declarations
that you remember forever:
“You might as well just tie together two peanut shells
together with string.”
a
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I knew a kid named Steven shnepper.he hated the name Steve and insisted we call him by his middle name, "Melvin'. we thought that Melvin was a dumber sounding name than Steven so we changed his name to Melvin "schlepper". that was mean because he was born with one foot shorter than the other. to compensate, Melvin had a very high platform made for the right shoe. his shoe was "custom" like my mother's gown for my brother's bar mitzvah.
because we were at that "mean age" we called him " Melvin 10 lb. shoe. we also called him Melvin the shoe schlepper. fast forward 20 years and there was Melvin in an infomercial selling his "proven method for speed reading". he was seating @ a desk and you couldn't see his feet. go know?
I didn’t see a place to post or leave a comment.
But I’ll look again.
xoxo
Lin Murphy
Be happy in this moment, this moment is your life
On Mar 5, 2021, at 6:14 PM, bookdoctor@rcn.com wrote:
Great story
Can you post it on the site? Xxxx
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 5, 2021, at 5:01 PM, lin@linmurphy.com wrote:
My first real boyfriend was named
Steve. (Like you said)
I met him down the shore- he was a
friend of a friend. Blonde and Handsome. We dated for a long
time. Very romantic dates surfing
in the early morning. I lived in Staten Island and He lived in NJ and went to Rutgers. I was still in HS.
We were together for 3 years.
Even got engaged. But then he
applied to med school in California
and that was the end of that.
❤️
Lin Murphy