With some of his childhood pals, he began running with a local gang of thugs, known as the Ashley Street Gang.

But within hours, Johnson cruised to a hip Chicago night haunt with Willie Posey, a childhood pal and bodyguard.

On that very disturbing day, it is to her childhood pal that she shares her concerns.

The girl is arrogant and rude till she realises that Muthu is her childhood pal.

One afternoon, Julian is invited to the house of the mother of his friend Pablo, where a reunion of the two childhood pals has been arranged.

"Nina is the most interesting friend I have," said Gwendolen Cates, a childhood pal.

There he reunites with his childhood pal Glenn and his favorite high school teacher Mr. Henkel.

To Be Sung Underwater began with Willy, who is loosely based on a childhood pal who never quite got over the woman that dropped him cold.

Helen has received more favorable treatment in her pop culture appearances (she got some sympathy from Xena, Warrior Princess, who happened to be a childhood pal).

By tradition he should have been, like his father, a longshoreman, or like most of his childhood pals, a construction worker or a cop.