Category Archives: Chapter 7

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

!!!!1*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! After we hung up, I wondered, as I had several times before, if those were the last words we’d say to each other. Images flooded my memory, and I knew I had to turn them off, or at … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! xv Marcia and I met for dinner the last Friday in March, at one of my favorite spots in Porter Square. “I don’t suppose they’ll be setting up out on the sidewalk any time soon, not after last … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! That spring and summer, I worked furiously on the final draft of our study examining the effect of epidurals on newborn behavior. Since I’d done at least half the exams, as well as the initial draft, and liaison … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! Dear Mike, In my unfortunate lacksidasical way I’ve finally gotten around to writing again. Although I don’t think a letter from me in the last month would have been any treat— I’ve just finished the graduate school rat-race, … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! “Have you started that other project with Brazelton yet?” Howard and I were eating dinner a bit later than everyone else one evening. I had come home around seven after a particularly long meeting at the CDU. Howard … Continue reading →

!!!!!*****WORKING DRAFT*****!!!!! 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 … Continue reading →