Jackie Danicki

NYC steeples

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Well, what’s another five minutes before bedtime? Tim tagged me with this, and I’ve decided to take a very past tense, tour-of-my-neuroses approach to it.

Five things you don’t know about me:

1) I had a thing for licking chain-link fences when I was a toddler. I’d see a fence and just run up to it and start licking away. I have scarily vivid memories of this, considering I was only two years old at the time.

2) I was so tan as a child that people thought I was Puerto Rican or Mexican. Nope, just prematurely vain.

3) I was convinced that my younger brother would be kidnapped when he started kindergarten, as he was so cute and funny and lovable that I knew loads of kidnappers would want to snatch him. I had nightmares about this from the time I started kindergarten until he’d advanced to first grade, about four years in total.

4) I was obsessed with throwing pennies into this fountain when I was a child. I’d beg to go to Midway Mall just for that. I always made the same wish. (It took almost 20 years to come true.)

5) I was utterly besotted with Madonna when I was six, much to the horror of my parents. I put posters of her on my bedroom wall (some of them got yanked down for being ‘dirty’), somehow got myself a pair of white lace fingerless gloves, and was totally convinced that I, too, could move to New York with only $35 in my pocket and survive. When my parents went on a work trip to New York, I begged my mother to go to the Palladium and get Madonna’s autograph for me. This seemed a totally sensible plan and easily achievable goal in my mind.

Tagged: Whoever wants to run with it, let me know in the comments.

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