ah, those fearful early years

as a teenager,

while 'dating',

your

main

dating concerns,

other than a few bucks

to go to the drive-in

movie theater,

revolved

around pregnancy

and disease

of which you wanted

nothing to do with.

you had no doctor

to speak of,

unless you count

the Free Clinic on M

Street

in Georgetown,

and little money

to raise

a child,

which would be difficult

to say

the least

living in your mother's

basement at

the time.

often it was a game

of Russian

Roulette,

which for the most

part you often

won.