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Love Rhymes – Chapter 8 – ii
v This time, I felt centered enough to write back. I’d stopped making copies of my letters to Mike, so all I remember is congratulating him on finding someone with whom to share this part of his life. Then I … Continue reading
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Love Rhymes, Chapter 8 – i
CHAPTER EIGHT The Center of The Universe May, 1974 Over the next three months, I had no time to dream about the future, or worry over the past. I spent many days at the CDU endlessly viewing and re-viewing tapes … Continue reading
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Love Rhymes, Chapter 7 – iv
xiv Dear Mike, I’ve been thinking [about you] quite a bit lately, so it seemed time to write. This past week Harvard Med has been announcing interneships. I suddenly realized that you too are about to become a doctor. How … Continue reading
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Love Rhymes, Chapter 7 – iii
x 26 December 1972 Dear Mike, I was sitting here at the typewriter, typing applications to graduate school, and decided to try to write you a letter. How are you? How is school and Southern Calif.? Yes, I really am … Continue reading
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Love Rhymes, Chapter 7 – ii
v Howard finished law school that spring, then attempted to study for his boards. But over the summer, while he volunteered at the Cambridge law clinic, we involuntarily passed from being occasional companions to true friends. I still saw my … Continue reading
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Love Rhymes, Chapter 7 – i
BOOK TWO My school girl diary ends there, so now I rely on what letters and papers I saved, and my increasingly faulty memory A Very Private Poem One summer’s time away she lay with me, and some day hence, … Continue reading
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Love Rhymes, Chapter 6 – iv
xiv Friday, the traditional end of a ski week, found us taking the Big Burn lift all the way to the top of the mountain. It was my graduation day, when I would finally stretch my wings away from the … Continue reading
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Love Rhymes, Chapter 6 – iii
viii During October, 1969, I felt calmer, more sedate. The campus had settled down, everyone back to work it seemed. The Faculty finally voted to condemn the war. Bev, Jeanne, and I found a domestic rhythm at 119 Oxford Street. … Continue reading
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Love Rhymes, Chapter 6 – ii
iv A few miles out of town, we meandered up a valley road, then drove along a hillside to a rutted dirt double track. Mike eased the car to a stop at a boxy house covered with vertical honey-colored cedar … Continue reading
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Love Rhymes, Chapter 6 – i
CHAPTER SIX If I Could Only Stop My Mind August, 1969 Mike’s parents went out to Snowmass the last two weeks of August to inspect their newly-built retirement cabin, which meant he and I had his house to ourselves when … Continue reading
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