12-23 (until leaving SLC to California)
Transitioning from elementary to Junior high School the beginning of puberty
I became president of the boys' glee (singing) club and didn't understand what an honor that was to be elected until looking back from old age
Also was running the stage crew getting pink slipped out of classes a friend of mine reminds me that when he took up the job after me he was able to pink slip other people out of their classes!
I remember having the key to the school I could get in at any time that was the way trust was back in those days!
High school was nothing memorable at all except one teacher who was a history teacher US History who actually taught me how to read and compare editorial policies in periodicals and current events Ine of the best teachers I have ever had and she was a lady I remember writing up to school with mom or dad in the car and walking home either alone or with my little brother Jim during this period of time either Sam or JB was at school or on missions JB to Australia Sam to England Sam went to some university called northwestern University dad took us there to see Ethel merman and his zipper broke and he was embarrassed the whole time
There were several indications I was gay including having my own internalized romances with high school boys my age but nothing ever came of it they were all fantasies in my head I remember finding a letter jacket apparently from someone in Mount pleasant and sleeping with it it smelled good I remember taking care of my father's apartments on my aunt as the landlady at least I did the paperwork and collected garbage at 740 East 3rd South from each unit there was a house next door 744 that we stored the stuff when we moved from our house when Dad was kicked out of his job (I didn't know he was doing fraudulent activity and they thought about arresting him from my mom's recollection let us kids knew nothing about it at the time)
I remember even romances with the Osmond Brothers of which I contacted them and actually had a phone call because of some letters I saw my brother and a very very close friend and Evanston Illinois I thought that was the way to form a male relationship and it was certainly wrong because it was sadomasticistic and my brothers and his friends case I remember an older person who lived in the apartment building and looking back he was trying to groom me or educate me and a gay way but I had no interest
I remember having TV romances with the boy on Flipper and some other show where the boy was always happy
Also two boys at East high School one of which later I found had died as a result of Vietnam
I eventually went on a mission after attending a year at the University of Utah and there is a story about what happened there and I came home when my dad died (see section...)
We almost immediately sold the apartment building that year 1968 and Sam absconded with all the assets and pretended he was our dad in so many ways especially when JB was wounded in Vietnam after a few months and in a coma. It seemed automatic that even more permission was taken by Sam but Mom would do nothing to stop it. There was a time that Mom was crying because when Sam was doing things with the farmhouse south of Mt. Pleasant that she was repeating over and over "But it is MY house not his".
I think he was pleased that Mom and I found a house to live in at 1904 Wasatch drive so he could do whatever he did to what I found out later kinda negotiated/stole a business(depending on who you talk to) from one of his friends named Wagstaff and even after his death his ex-wife told me how he was not chosen to go to Washington DC with other men because they didn't quite trust him.