By the time I was in junior high schoolI had 15 pen pals with whom I correspond-ed faithfully. I found that being a pen palwas a nonthreatening way of makingfriends. All my correspondents lived in SanFrancisco, while I was about 15 miles south inBurlingame. They were all too young to drive,so the chances we d meet were slim. Since Iwas extremely bashful, this suited me fine. I found my correspondents in the 1928 San