Peter Gray

I think the story that I remember best is that she had a bicycle.

I at that point did not have a bicycle.

And I was really eager to learn how to ride a bicycle.

So she said, well, I'll teach you how to ride a bicycle.

So it turns out the street between our houses was on a small slope.

And so she said, well, the easiest way to learn how to ride a bicycle is start at the top of the slope and give yourself a push.

And then you just start pedaling and go as far as you can go and see if you can go a little farther every time.

And what wonderful instructions for how to ride a bicycle.

And so I did that.

And her bike was a girl's bike, which made it easier to learn because I didn't have to swing my leg up over that bar.

And so she taught me how to ride a bicycle.

Then once I could ride a bicycle, I convinced my parents to buy me a secondhand bike.

She and I would take bicycle trips all around town.

And my mother said it's fine for me.

I could, by myself, I had to stay within the town limits on the bike.

But with Ruby Lou, it would be okay to go wherever we wanted because she assumed Ruby Lou was wiser and a little older and smarter than I was.

I think she was.

And we could go places together.

Yeah, so the kids were all into baseball there, and we would just get together whenever we could on the vacant lot, whatever kids were around, and we'd create our own baseball games.

And so each team had to sort of choose their own player who would kind of be the coach who would