Willie and the Tattletale Fish

Willie was a beautiful young boy, and I loved him.

Not that I knew that or understood it at the time.

Willie Fox and I attended parochial elementary school together in Seaford, NY, and sang in the church’s children’s choir. I think we became fast friends — best friends — around third grade, maybe 1969. One Christmas, we sang a duet together in church, a sort of lullabye to the Christ…