![]() ![]() I wanted to be a spy, so I started spying on my family, especially my older sister. One of my favorites books as a child was "Harriet the Spy". I didn't write them down until I was a little older, but I sure loved to make them up. One of my favorite memories is of my father telling me bedtime stories, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, B'rer Rabbit, and stories from the Bible such as my favorite, Joseph and his Coat of Many Colors. I've loved stories for as long as I can remember. When my mother told me what the teacher had said I replied that I heard my teacher all right, it's just that she kept interrupting all my good thoughts! She told my mother that she thought I had a hearing problem. ![]() In kindergarten, I paid no attention to my teacher. I was very active as a child-I loved to jump on beds, do somersaults, handstands and flips on and off of sofas, climb trees and do different tricks on the monkey bars at the playground. It is now pronounced, Han, and it rhymes with man. ![]() The neighborhood kids also called me Hahn. My family shortened this to a variety of nicknames: Hahn, Han Holl, Han, Hannie, and Hannie Bucket, which my husband later shortened to Hannie B. I couldn't pronounce my first and middle names, which were Helen Harris, so I said "Hannah Hollis". My family called me "Hoot" back then because that and my big eyes made me look like an owl. When I was a toddler, I had white blond hair that stood straight up on my head. When I was 9 months old my family moved to New York where I spent most of my childhood and teen years. ![]()
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