Fearless: I was in first grade; they found my Dad's old bike
Lou: You Lucky dog. I had to wait till I was in the 6th. grade.
My parents would never buy me a bike. I bought my first one for myself with my own money when I was a senior in COLLEGE.
I also learned never to ask for anything. When I met my late H, he also had forgotten how to want... so I spent my time figuring out what he wanted and getting it for him. The best thing was his pottery shop and his museum docent work-- he loved both those things and I was the one who pushed him into them. I did that to some extent with my bf in the beginning, but less now. One thing I've noticed about our R is that we both ask virtually nothing of each other. We live on very close parallel tracks but make few requests of each other.
