I also have a few leftover Valentine's cards. Now that I look at them, they seem a tad racy for a kid to be selling...maybe they somehow got mixed in with the others.
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Old Wives’ Tales

I never put a hat on the bed.

I hold my breathe when I pass a cemetery.

When I see a nun in a habit,  I pull on my buttons.

I never walk under open ladders.

I bring the cup to the kettle,  never the kettle to the cup.

I never open an umbrella in the house.

When I can’t find my keys I turn a teacup over three times.

I’ll sew a button on your shirt while you’re wearing it only if you chew on a piece of thread.

And I’d never let a black cat cross my path – unless it’s my own cat of course.

It’s not that I’m superstitious,  I just do what my grandmother taught me!

– Dana Susan Lehrman 

For a time, I remain convinced that I am awake.
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With a beginner’s naïveté, I wrote a letter to the producer Danny Dare and told him why he should cast me: “Dear Mr. Dare, I live in West Covina and I’m a talented actor. I can do an excellent English accent and I can sing. You should cast me in Oliver!”
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