Out Of The Mouths Of Babes

January, 1976

Back in those prepubescent days when the stuff actually cost one cent, penny candy served the same purpose as five pounds of Godiva chocolates or a quart of Joy perfume does today. You could lure your fifth-grade sweetheart off to a corner of the playground on the promise of seeing what lay clutched in your sticky palm--a root-beer barrel, perhaps, or a marshmallowy fruit redolent with imitation banana oil. Well, we got to reminiscing about those golden moments, one thing led to another and here...