Tuesday, August 14, 2007
When I went missing in New Jersey
It was a spring day in 1958 when I went missing, well, for a few hours anyway. Of course I knew exactly where I was, the problem was that Mom and Dad had no idea where I was. The story goes like this. There was this girl in my 7th grade class, her name was Judith Bebe (I think) she invited me to her birthday party. I came home that day and told mom I was not coming home from school and was going to a birthday part. The only problem was the party was at least a month or two away. The day of the party I went to school not saying anything. The school day was just a typical boring day of teachers trying to teach me something. The only thing I had on my mind was going to this birthday party with Judy. The school bell rang; Judy and I went directly from school to her house. As I remember she lived in a big rancher on a farm with a barn and a few horses. There was also an Artisan Well wheel in the back yard. I can't remember much about what we did, rode horses, played games etc.
Mean while back at the Klein house, pandemonium set in. I can't imagine what must have been going on. Mom and Dad never really expressed what they felt during the time I was partying it up at the Bebe house.
Around 9 o'clock at night the party came to and end and Judy's parents were taking me home. As the car turned off of Cumberland road on the short dirt road where we lived there was an array of flashing red lights. Police cars were everywhere. I had no idea what was going on until the car stopped and I got out. Somebody yelled there he his, mom came running over, now I am sure she was glad to see me, but boy was she mad. Where in the hell have you been, she said. I explained the best I could where I was but nobody seemed to care, except for the police. They wanted to know where the party was, who were there, etc.
The next day everything got back to normal, or at least that is the way I remember it.
Bob Klein
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