"Elvis, do you really want me to slap you?" ~ Joan Staley ~ So my friends and I were talking about first crushes. First tv and movie crushes. For me, it was easy. It was Alma. (Joan Staley) I broke into the double-digit age of 10 in 1993. That was the summer I discovered my favorite Don Knotts movie while flipping thru cable one Saturday morning... "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken." Everyone has seen it. It was a funny haunted house story similar to an episode on Andy G. with a cast of familiar characters, trippy organ music, and the prettiest girl I had ever seen...Alma. She was beautiful alright. I was love-stung so bad, I swear I could smell flowers coming out of the TV set. And best of all, she was nice. She didn't like the smart alec, the wise guy, or the show-off. Alma was digging Luther (Don Knotts) and that just made her that much prettier. And from then on... But unfortu...
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