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I’ve been trying to make it with girls for as long as I can remember. My first time. I was five and a half years old, and she was six. This was in 1928 or 1929. This was at a Fourth of July picnic, and there was this girl, six years old. I gave her some strawberry pop. I gave her the pop because I didn’t want it; I had taken up chewing tobacco and I liked that better. I didn’t start smoking until I was nine. But I gave her the pop, and then we—hell, I never lost my virginity. I never had any virginity.