... is a very Southern Gothic little girls name. Very To Kill a Mockingbird. She was an only child in our neighborhood growing up - which was like being a rainbow colored, three legged, joke telling unicorn. All the kids knew she always only drank ginger ale because she was deathly allergic to milk and had a mouthful of tiny, rotten teeth to prove it. If even the tiniest drop of milk ever touched her thin, pale lips she'd collapse right there on the spot, never to breathe another breath. All the mothers worried because she was always "as white as a sheet" wan and as thin as Popeyes girlfriend. Her always worried, overly protective mother walked her to the school bus and picked her up for lunch and returned her to school and picked her up again at the end of the day. My close friend Kit lived right across the street from her and whenever she hung out at Patty's house, she'd always have to untie her blond pigtails because otherwise Pattys older-than-the-othe...
