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Carol Perkins: The Old Flame Previous Column: A Spoiled Woman By Carol Perkins For the past few years, I have been working on a new novel. It is actually going to be a series, called "The Old Flame." In everyone's life there is someone, whether an elementary school crush or an actual relationship/engagement that didn't work out but hasn't been forgotten. Most of us remember all of our "old" boyfriends/crushes and the times we pined away thinking about them. Some returned the attention, and some did not. We girls wrote their names on our notebooks and sent messages through our friends. Those were fun times. My first boyfriend was in the second grade. Cute little red-headed boy who moved away before the next year began and took my little heart with him. Then there was another boy who became "everyone's" boyfriend yet claimed none of us. We girls "liked" him through the sixth grade. Then we moved on to older boys! It was during this time I fell in love. Fell hard, but it wasn't meant to be. He was older, lived too far away, and never knew I existed. I saw him almost every Saturday night, but he never saw me. I vowed that if he met me, would want to marry me. That never happened. His name was James Darren. He played in the Endless Summer series of Gidget beach movies. While my friends were fainting over Fabian, my heart went to James Darren. He was an actor AND a singer. The only picture on my bedroom wall was of him, and many nights in my early teen years I would pray that we could meet, and he ask me to wait for him. I was probably twelve. My daughter, Carla, felt that way about Andy Gibbs. When I took her to his concert, she reminded me of my twelve-year-old self. We also took her year young cousin who slept through the music. Carla wanted to run away with him. She was twelve. The celebration/memories of Elvis are strong this month-the month of his death. So many girls swooned over him and some never got over their crush. They watched all his movies, followed his marriage, and mourned him as if he were a family member. My James Darren is now 87 years old. I think I'll send him this article and maybe he'll want to meet me after all these years. We would have some catching up to do. You can contact Carol at carolperkins06@gmail.com. This story was posted on 2024-08-04 14:04:28
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