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if he had any plans for the weekend without much success. He asked me to tell Maurice he would come home if A.J. wanted him to. Before he left me, he said he'd let me know what his plans were - he was thinking of possibly going to Poughkeepsie to see some friends.

I spent the afternoon in my room. My first problem was to decide what I would do over the weekend. I felt lonely and rather depressed as I frequently do when forced to be away over a weekend, and I was inclined to go on a bender say to the Village tonight, maybe getting Bob to go along. However, I saw what an asinine thing it would be resulting in feeling like hell tomorrow, spending a lot of money for nothing. So I determined to take the bull by the horns and try to line up a sensible weekend; my intuition told me it would bring me experiences really worthwhile if I'd ram the other ideas out of the picture and take the initiative in organizing for something right. So I called Jim Smith and asked him to get Dolly to come down for dinner tonight - OK - he was already thinking about it himself. Then, after some hesitation, I got hold of "Collis" Bowers and invited him to go to Forest Hills tomorrow afternoon - fine - and would I come home with him later for dinner. So there was the answer and how infinitely much more worthwhile than to pursue my first inclination! As for Bob, I never did hear from him, showing again it's silly to depend on anyone as shifty and unreliable as Bob, if I'd held off arranging anything till I heard from him, I'd have missed a swell evening with Jim, Dolly and a Mrs. Schwellenberger, a friend of the Smiths who looks out for Dolly when Jim's away. Jim wanted to do something for her so he invited her along too. We had a drink at the Commodore and then went

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