Danny

The littles and I stopped at Walmart to get gum out of the machine.  We had shopped at Winco, but they don't have bubble gum machines.  Shortly after we got out of our car, this young man walked up and said that I didn't recognize him.  He recognized me and called me Mike's mom.  He reminded me that his name was Danny.
I don't recognize a lot of Mike's friends that were his friends as children.  Once they become men most of them look different.  Looking at Danny I could see the boy in the man's face.  I told him that I remembered him.  He played with Mike a lot until Danny's family moved to Amboy or Yacolt.
We talked about the littles and he said the little man looks exactly like Mike when Mike was little and it brought back really good memories for Danny.  I'm glad.
After he walked away and we continued on our way to the gum machines I told the littles that Danny was a friend of Daddy's.  The response I got was "oh, was he in prison, too?"  Oy.  No little honey's, Danny knew Daddy as a little boy.