Ann was raised by her grandmother in a large apartment in Manhattan, New York. She attended an exclusive girls’ school where the teachers, coaches and principal were all women. Besides their driver and houseboy, Ann had no exposure to men, a strange species. One day her Nanny took her to Central Park where she met Balloon Boy. He was quiet and shy and the perfect boy to be her first male friend. Never romantically involved, they enriched one another’s lives for decades!