Even if it’s like a cheap form of self-satisfaction, or odd nostalgia, I’m all about these childhood school papers of mine! My plot development skills really improve by the time I wrote “The Boxcar Child IIV” – I guess those are meant to be Roman numerals for 7, lol.

Apparently, Ty-Cyi Tu is a Chinese orphan aged 7 1/2, who wins “Chinese Clearing Apartments” (Publishers Clearing House) He won 100 million “B.U.T. francs” and lived on his own and owned b a Corvette Power Wheel. Apparently he got kidnapped and was forced to live in a boxcar that was almost as big as his mansion! Then he put all of his “foreign furniture” in the boxcar and went to the “meat store” to buy $5 of meat from a “Portugeeze kid” named Tuxooleaa Fxxet.

He takes her home to show her the boxcar, when she mistakens the laundry chute for the bathroom and ends up in the dishwasher! Maid #13 opens up the dishwasher and screams “AAAAAGGGHHH!”

Then they get married on February 36th, 1943. And how progressive – Tyi Cy ends up taking Tuxooleaa’s last name!

This is like The Boxcar Children meets Rikki Tikki Tembo meets Harold and Maude meets Richie Rich.

Truthfully, the fact that I wrote it in October 1990 is the most shocking thing of all.