Let's see, where was I?

I was able to entertain myself quite easily but it was dawning on me that I was becoming drawn to certain types of programs on t.v.  I distinctly remember being about 4-5 years old and The Addams Family came on and, having never seen it before and having had my fill of The Munsters, I sat down it give it a try and after a week, I really grew to like it....especially the theme song!  And all as a result of a "misheard lyric."  There are some famous ones, the most famous probably being Jimi Hendrix's " 'xcuse me while I kiss the sky." which is sometimes heard as "'xcuse me while I kiss this guy."  And personally it was MONTHS before I knew that in "Lucille", Kenny Rogers' wife didn't leave him with "400 children and a crop in the field," but "4 hungry children....."  See how easy it can happen?  But I digress.  Back to The Addams Family...if you run through the song, you come to the line, "a roost that you can crawl on," well what my little 4 or 5 year old mind hear was "a Bruce that you can crawl on."  And at the time, being really into the Batman tv series, the only "Bruce" that came to mind was "Wayne" and all I can tell you is that, even at that age my "spring" was "sprung"!  I was also very aware and even looked forward to the rerunning of the episodes of Gilligan's Island, where "The Professor" had a nightmare and rips his shirt open; or the "Surfer Dude" washes up on shore; or the episode of Fury where Peter Graves ran outside shirtless.  But by far the character who made the most impact on me I happened upon by accident while I was changing channels (we didn't have "channel surfing" in those days).  "Cheyenne Bodie" as portrayed by Clint Walker set an archetype for me that endures to this very day.  Tall, rugged, masculine, muscular, handsome, hairy chest...the WHOLE NINE YARDS.  In this month's OUT magazine, Maroon 5's lead singer Adam Levine talks about his gay brother and makes this comment to Shana Naomi Krochmal:  "I can single-handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired.  Trust me, you're born with it.  My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two." (p.109).  Sooooooo...a 2-year-old and myself a 4-year-old...too young to be "indoctrinated" and certainly, in my case most definitely, NEVER being around any other of "those sick disgusting people" at that point in my life, how else would you explain it?  Like Lady Ga Ga says, I was Born This Way, Baby!  My paws are up!!