The Get A Long Gang

Does anyone remember this show?

I was like 4 when it first came on.

Like all good kids, I had to have the toys.  And like good parents,

mine indulged me.

I had the whole crew; Portia, Woolma, Montgomery, Bingo, Zipper.  

But I loved none the way I love Dotty Dog

(who, for some reason, I always called Diddy Dog).

It was a tiny little toy.  She went everywhere with me, for years.

Countless hours were spent looking for her 

by my whole family; I lost her daily.

I eventually outgrew The Get A Long Gang.

But Daddy kept Diddy.

All those years, and he kept her.

He had a little case thing for her, and kept it on his dresser.

When Dad died and we cleaned out the house, I reclaimed her.

She now lives in her little case on my dresser, very much looking like the

26 year old toy she is.

The paint is fading, completely gone in some places, the beautiful red D gone.

But she's still my Diddy.