The Dancers - Fred & Ginger
Although my Mom and Dad were homebodies and family was most important to them, they also loved to dance. There were two famous dancing actors back then - Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. I always compared my parents to them since they danced so beautifully together. I can't believe I don't have a picture of them dancing.Those were the only times they hired a babysitter or we stayed overnight at our Grandparent's house. I hated spending the night at their house.
They had an old furnace that sounded like someone walking heavily through the house. The bedroom we slept in always had the closet door open and the closet had a stained glass window in it and the moon would hit the window and there was always an amount of light coming through.
The closet door had a clothes hook on it and one of Grampa's coats was hanging on it with a hat on top. I would lay in bed all night staring at that coat with the hat being lighted from the closet window and hearing that furnace kick on in cold weather. I never got much sleep!
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