Navy guy Dale Crews met my mom, and they became managers of the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Lakeland, FL.
Hoping to create a family to include me, my mother, Dee, married Dale at one minute past midnight on New Year's Eve 1957.
In Lakeland, Florida in 1956 was the first time I was allowed to live with my mother since birth. My grandmother had kept me away from mom for (as it turned out) twenty years.
In 1957, Nonnie and I lived with Dee and Dale Crews in Lakeland, Florida.
I had a few fond memories of that time, learning to love Latin music when I visited my mom at her dance studio, getting to play with the typewriter, and watching Sheena of the Jungle on TV.
