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GORDON, who is the movies' Tarzan, and Vera were married April 15, 1956. Kelley and Debbie are Vera's by a previous marriage.
YOUNG Mike will never want for love or affection if Vera has her way. Her own childhood was barren of parental affection.
The love and laughter that fill her life now
be noticed. While other children her age were cuddled by parents, played with dolls and ran laughing and yelling in the outdoors, the little girl with the flaxen hair pulled tightly back in braids and with enormous brown eyes filling her thin face, pressed herself into a corner, never smiling, never talking. Once, a guest saw her and, feeling sorry for the child who never smiled, impulsively gave her a doll. It was the only doll Vera ever owned, and she'd hold it tightly, pressing upon it the love she couldn't give to anyone else.
Her mother, for all her hours of hard work, earned only about $12 a week, and Vera learned how to be on her own. She'd come home to the single room from school and prepare dinner for herself. Food was usually beans and potatoes because they were filling and cheap. She wondered what it would be like to drink a whole glass of milk and when she would ever eat meat again, as she once had when the manager of the hotel treated her to dinner.
"I had no friends," she recalls. "I, was so used to being by myself that I didn't know how to enter a group and make small talk with them. I had been too used to day-dreaming, anyway, and I seemed to be far removed from everyone else. I was an outsider. Even though I was used to it, I felt miserable and lonely."
In her make-believe world she dreamed of a time when she'd leave the shabby one-room flat and live in a sunny home with lots of rooms. She dreamed of having pretty clothes, plenty to eat, and someone who loved her.