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Not to stray too far from the BEWITCHED topic here but I actually got teary reading your post Randella. I am glad you got you harem pants. God I love reading these stories that validate so much of my early years, and tell me there were so many others like myself. Maybe if you had been put in a play group of little sissies, you could have found identification and commeraderie with little boys like yourself. Too progreesive for the early 70's I suppose. I remember wandering the aisles endlessly every Halloween season at the D&C Dime Store and repeatedly passing the Jeannie and Samantha costumes that came pre-boxed with cheesy acetate tie back step ins and a plastic masks. I longed to be Samamntha soooooo bad. To wear that BEWTICHED logo emblazoned across my chest in silver glitter and don the face that appeared in the cartoon beginning. I would rummage EVERY year for what seemed several, for a Serena or a Jeannies Bad Sister costume. NEVER found one. I use to have vivid dreams that I would sit on a cloud above the heads and attention of my family in our family room. I also used to have almost out of body like dreams of me flying thru the night skies over brightly lit cities. I was always in what I now recognize as a "flying" dress. The thrill of those big booming, lightning splatterd and whirling wind entrances of the more powerful or sinister characters always took my breath away. To this day, the feel of a wild wind is very sensual to me. I use to try every so often to test my "witchcraft". As if by some mistake I had overlooked it previously. I would concentrate hard on an object in the livingroom. Mostly big crystal ashtrays or cumbersome table lamps and WILL them to move for me. NEVER ONCE!!! Playing Samantha AND Jeannie (only after we got our round playpen sectional couches in the early 70's) would take up endless hours with my friends Cindy and Billy and Scooby. Billy and Scooby were always Darrin and Larry or Tony and Roger. Of course I always starred and Cindy could be anyone from Aunt Clara to Tabitha to Amanda Bellows. A burgeoning dyke, Cindy and I would also play Farrah Fawcett and Lee Majors. Cindy made a great Lee Majors. She had a big haired babydoll who was little FAWN our child, and I always insisted in putting blue pool cue chalk on her eyelids because she was a young fashion model ala Brooke Shields. I remember Billy and I walking up to my mother one afternoon as she chatted with my Grandmother on the phone, and I had to break the news that I was pregnant. My mother almost dropped her teeth as I was about 7 at the time. I told her I would be expecting and she should be prepared if it was born a witch and she would have to love it all the same. She came unglued. After 3 butch little rough housing boys, here I was her baby boy and pregnant at 7!!
Oh GOD!!!!! Well my being "different" only stregnthend my bond with my mother as she fought very hard to understand who I was and to nurture WHOMEVER I was going to be. My mom until she passed would share BEWITCHED tidbits with me from time to time as she would come across them in articles or whatever. She knew how much Samantha meant to me, and would tease me about "popping" out when I got angry as a child. God Bless Elizabeth Montgomery!!!!!!!!!
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