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Show Simon Frank 6-28 p.l2 Rabbi Gordon v turned out to be a very close friend of mi~~ I mean, his wife. We were close friends and then we had a relatively small group at that time. And it was strictly through that friendship that I went to the temple not through any religious need. L So you basically stopped going after confirmation. s Yes~ I didn't go before confirmation either, other than sunday school. I guess maybe on the high holidays. I remrnebr going to down to see my ~ ~- ----- I even went to~hool on the high holidays. I think t kids were kept out because you were supposed to and I went to school. So I was a re~=~~~- L Why didn't you want to go. S I didn't want to be conspicuous by my absence, I guess, at school. Why weren't ~~-w-here, wre you sick or someting. Probably, I don't know. public school, was also fun. And the school, L When you dated, you went into girls' homes with it parents chaperoning . ... Did you ever meet outside with thse girlfriends you went to school with ... S During school all day, yes. L What was i proper for boy and girl who were attracted to each other .... holding hands ... S I guess so. t , r ~hen we were interested in Sex, we didn't participate w·1 t h t h e g1· r 1 s /wwniotmh we went to sch oo 1 .~1· ~n~ - 1· n our group so ca1 1 e d . We sough t other females for that companionship. L From other schools??? s God it's so long; I honestly don;t remember. ~ Remmebr being intersted in sex at a very young age, didnt quite know what to do about it,but we tried. L Thatwasn't spoken of in the home, was it? S Oh, never ..•• at least I wouldn't have and I don't think anybody else did either. Not the openness there is today. Gosh, I~~~" my daguther's house, with my grandchildren and even now I almost get embarrassed with some of the things ...,._·~ l-JO W\. that are so open. -Like you were talking eeee -- equal you know, age and everything else. And I -- one thing I never did. I never swore in front of my parents or my children. And never told dirty stories1 nor could I listen to dirty stories around my parents, if somebody every now and then, you know, would come up with something. Or my children. Very very rarely. In esence, for a -re-l-a-ti-ve--l-y-·- ·-wil-d g_u__y,_ __I'm_ _ki nd of Ef~dish. Was then and still am. That's about ... ____ - all I can say in that regard. L Were your parents affectionate with each other, openly, at home in those days. |
