He was everybody's darling, this happy-go-lucky kid who always wore a smile, enjoyed himself daily, joked with people and appeared unflappable.
He's always the happy-go-lucky kid and I was the oldest.
Once a happy-go-lucky kid, Henry becomes violent and rude, destroying his favorite stuffed animal and drowning his pet hamster.
I was a happy-go-lucky kid who, when I thought about a career at all, figured I'd be a rock star.
When the battle was over 85 days later, Mr. Kraus was still 19, but no longer a happy-go-lucky kid from Long Island.
"He was just a happy-go-lucky kid," Ms. Singleton added.
It was out of character, because we knew him as a happy-go-lucky kid.
A family friend, Bert Tomlinson, recalled Mr. Ferguson, now 35 years old, as a "fat little jovial sort of happy-go-lucky kid."
Looking at this happy-go-lucky kid, you would never guess at the biological uproar within.
"Kevin's a happy-go-lucky kid, not anything like you'd think," said the Browns' 58-year-old rookie head coach, Bud Carson.