The Character Mac

I've had a couple of friends ask if I were the character Mac in The Possessor. The answer is no. Mac was my nickname growing up, but that is as autobiographical as it gets. Mac is a compilation of many young boys who grew up in the fifties. It was an innocent time. During the summer, I would leave the house in the early morning and my parents wouldn't see me again until late in the afternoon or early evening. We'd actually walk from Meyer and Prospect in south Kansas City to Swope Park. We'd roam all over the park until we were hungry, and then walk back to someone's house for peanut butter sandwiches. Other times we'd go buy a coke and a candy bar and keep on playing. A coke cost a nickel and so did a candy bar. My favorite treat was a bottle of coke with cashews from a vending machine: pure heaven! We'd sit around and talk about girls as if we really understood them. (Sometimes we still do that!) Very few of us had air-conditioned homes, so we spent most of our summer outside. We had many sleepovers during the summer. Played a lot of baseball, and went swimming. I think one of the wildest things we did before we were sixteen was run around the block late at night in our underwear during a sleepover. I guess you could say we were modest streakers for our time. Compared to early teenagers today, we were pretty naive, but as I look back on those times, they were a lot of fun.

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