Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly In 1947 Comments

It may have been the devil himself who prompted the kids in my schoolyard back in 1947 to chant 'Patsy Foley's roly-poly from eating too much ravioli.'

At first, no one could remember who started the chant. Patsy, a sweet and ample child, was in the third grade. As happenstance would have it, I was in that same third grade, infamous already as the only boy wearing spectacles in our class. After I got the glasses, I had three schoolyard fights in three days to prove to Larry Moore, Billy Gallagher and Fred Ham that I hadn't changed a bit. You would think I would have forgotten their names by now. Not a chance. I didn't like being messed with in third grade.
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