There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me (53 page)

Mom with some adoring sailors.

Mom out with one of her many attractive suitors.

Mom making sure we notice her favorite asset.

One of the only photos I have of Mom pregnant and wearing a wedding ring. Look how my dad is lovingly gazing at her.

I was two months premature and weighed only five pounds, four ounces.

Mommy kissing her baby. I loved blowing raspberries.

© 1965 Roy Schatt. Courtesy WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC.

Mom walking me into the beach club. Notice my diaper-only-clad body and hot dog with no bun.

Dad taking me on the same path. Notice the neat outfit and no hot dog. Dad was a smoker.

Chic Mom and me on the street where I met Greta Garbo.

Daddy and me at his Fifty-Second Street apartment. My baggy cloth diaper was Dad’s doing.

Mom and me on Southampton Beach.

“Hold still, Brookie.”

One of my favorite pictures of me with my dad. I loved to make him laugh by doing imitations.