Like countless other boys in Massapequa, he had a crew cut and wore Keds sneakers and T-shirts with horizontal stripes.
He knew that any day now Shirley might take her departure from their house and return to Massapequa.
She would leave Massapequa at once, and her whereabouts must remain a secret even from her own family.
Of course he would and he would bring Shirley back with him to Massapequa.
It would take at least two hours to get through the Customs and out to Massapequa.
Their house at Massapequa, known as "the pirate's house," remained standing until well into the last century.
