Nice beginning, Jeff. I like the way you invoke not only 'sight' but smell (perfume), taste (gum) and the air (hot summer) and sound (quiet neighborhood) all in the first two short paragraphs. It establishes a sense of time and place viscerally, not just visually.
At some point in your project, you're going to need a good editor. Not all writers can edit and not all editors can write.
For example, you've established that you are recalling a memory. You want to draw us into that memory so we 'experience' it as you did. You're painting a picture (quite well, too) and you want us to put ourselves in that picture, in your shoes. Now take out your next three uses of the word or forms of the word "recall." We want to trust the accuracy of your memory - you don't need to remind us that it could be faulty. That is a given, but just tell the story as if it were happening right now.
