My mom's best friends were Atz and Nedra Kiltcher. Mom know Nedra as a child from Alaska and Atz was a year younger than my mom in school, I think. Atz was always funny, my mom said. Nedra sang like an angel. She also played the piano beautifully. Atz and Nedra wanted to help my mom and they lived in Sugarhouse, Utah in an old bungalow 1924 style. They had a basement apartment with a small kitchen, a bathroom and two bedrooms, a living room... It was a nice place and I remember loving it there. Atz and Nedra had one child named Shane, and he was a fun friend. He was C's age, but Shane and I got along and played often. D started school. I was about 3-4 and C was about 2-3. We were on a hill, and about three houses down and around the corner, and two blocks was the School that D went to. Everyday, I would walk to the corner when it was time for D to get out of school. I would wait for about two minutes as I would see D come walking up the street. I was so excited for her to tell me everything that she was learning. She would read with me after school and teach me everything she learned. Sometimes, she liked to be alone and so my mom made her a room for herself. She would make me do the secret knock if I wanted to come in. Sometimes she would tell me the secret knock was wrong, so that I could not come in. She some reason that that was so funny.
One day while I was waiting for D, a car pulled up in front of me, and a man opened the door. He was in a long blue Cadillac, and wearing a blue suit. The man opened his brief case. Inside was a candy shop. The brief case was loaded with candy. I have never to this day I have never seen so much candy outside a candy shop and out of the Halloween Season. That man, whose face I will never forget, was trying with candy to get in his car, and my 4 year old mind was racing with how I could get that candy, give it to my sisters, eat some, I was so excited. As I started toward the car, the corner house German Shepard went wild, it started ferociously barking and it was the first time I had ever seen this reaction from the dog. It scared me. The an was saying, "Come on, I will give you some candy, just come get some candy" the dog barking, I stared getting scared, but, I attributed it to the dog sounding like he wanted to jump his fence. Just then, my sister grabbed me from behind and said to the man, "We have candy, we don't want any" ... WHAT? We don't want candy? I was shocked, I was stunned I was upset that my sister dragged me (literally dragged me) away from the man with the candy suit case. the man drove away and D said was we were walking up the hill, "What are you doing? Never NEVER take candy from any man, any body, they will kill you". I was crying. I just wanted candy. we walked up the hill and in the home with me crying. Mom asked what happened, and Danae told mom about how she was walking to meet me when someone was trying to get me into a car, and the man had a bunch of candy. "Well," mom said, "You did not get in the car, so you will get a reward. Let's go buy all the candy you wanted from that man's brief case.!" and all was right with the Universe because mom fixed it. We walked to the candy shop with mom and she bought everything I wanted.
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