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Marcene and her family moved to Jacksonville before I was in second grade and when a Walter Offenbacher started school he and Douglas got along right well. I missed having a girl friend in my class. When the boys started bringing toy trucks to school and making roadways on the school’s hillside I felt very left out, it looked to be so much fun.  \nMy mother surprised me one day with a little toy pick-up she had bought when she was shopping in Medford. It was bright red with white wheels. (It is the only toy I remember her buying) I was so happy to take it to school and show everyone, but chose to make my own roadson the hillside because I figured the boys didn’t want me in their territory. I don’t remember any other girls joining me.  \nElsie Dietrick was her name and the toy car bit was over by the time Elsie joined us in the fourth grade. Her family came here in 1934 during the Depression and moved nearby, into a small log cabin, on the first mining claim up Palmer Creek. She had two brothers, Loren, older than her and Harry Jr., the youngest. This was the first family with children during that time to live on Palmer Creek. There were  \nquite a few other miners up there but I only remember two who had wives; therest were bachelors.  \nIt is interesting how well Elsie and I got along. We never had any disagreement as most children do some times. We liked doing the same things and our teacher would let us study together away from the other students if we had finished our homework. We could go into the library room or the girls coat room, our favorite place, where we would go into a small closet and sit on the top shelf to look out the small high window.  \nIt didn’t take long for Elsie’s family to get acquainted with mine. Her parents, Harry and Hilda, liked to playa card game, called Pedro, with my folks. The family would walk down some evenings before dark to have some enjoyable card games. The adults played in the living room with the door closed and we kids played cards and other games at the kitchen table. We were cautioned to not “rough house” because kerosene lamps were to be protected as well as the rest of the kitchen. We had so much fun and the time seemed to go too fast before they had to leave for home.  \nOften times, Elsie was asked to stay all night with me, like a Friday after school. One Friday is quite memorable! I decided we needed a special treat after the mile walk home from school. A hunger for some candy resulted in us making our own.  \nSome powdered sugar and butter blended together with some red food coloring to get a luscious pink candy. Even though it was before the evening meal, we ate all we could hold. Sometime in the middle of the night, I became very ill and was unable to keep from throwing up over the side of the bed. Of course, this woke Elsie up and I was so embarrassed to find Elsie’s shoes the target of my distress. My mother had to clean everything up so noone got much sleep that night. To this day I cannot stand the sight of any kind of pink candy or frosting.  \nI don’t know how Elsie was able to forgive me or if her shoes were ever the same, however, she did invite me to stay all night with her which pleased me. I so enjoyed being in the one-room log cabin as it was the first time I had ever been inside one. It seemed so cozy with that nice family. I prayed that I would noteat something to cause another nighttime episode. Of course it was difficult for Elsie and I to go to sleep and not disturb her family with our giggles. I don’t recall how all the beds were arranged in such a small area. In those times one had to make do. My uncle, Ernest McKee, got word to us that his family was moving from Klamath Falls to Cottage Gro","cbCaif6sayk7bvLC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaif6sayk7bvLC","pdf",664598,"English","# BACK IN TIME\n## A special grade-school friend","[{\"question\":\"How did the narrator and Elsie first connect in grade school?\",\"answer\":\"They grew closer despite early differences in class friendships; Elsie joined their circle around fourth grade, and they studied and played together with permission from their teacher.\"},{\"question\":\"What made the toy pick-up important to the narrator’s school experience?\",\"answer\":\"The bright red toy pick-up gave the narrator a new way to feel included, prompting her to create her own roadways on the school hillside rather than entering the boys’ play territory.\"},{\"question\":\"Why did the narrator develop a lasting dislike of pink candy or frosting?\",\"answer\":\"After making the pink candy with Elsie at night, the narrator became violently ill and vomited during the night, which led to a cleanup by her mother and an enduring aversion afterward.\"}]","A special grade-school friend - Applegater Spring 2011 21 | PDF"]