I was living with my cousins in Conn. The beach where I swam had shark nets. My first visit to an American movie theatre too. The movie was so scary I had to hide my eyes from it. (I saw it again a short while ago and laghed so much at the shark. How could we ever feel it was the real deal back then?)

At the end the audience stood up and applauded. I had never experienced that either.. but I was only sixteen