A dropped ice cream cone ... a kindly man ... a boy comes of age ..."The day after my sixth birthday in 1968 I walked from the Marander Apartments, where I lived with my mom, to the Puff-Flo ice cream stand near the beach. In my pocket I had a quarter, enough money to buy a Puff-Flo cone. The silver piece was a birthday gift from my Aunt Floreen, actually a cousin of my mother’s who lived up north in Virginia."