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In the evening Lou Ann has baked a chicken & made a rice & veggie dish which is outstanding. Dinner includes only Jim,  Lou Ann, B & B & Rosa since all the students are gone, as are the film crew.

Beate then bakes some banana cake for a lunch which Jim & Ben cooked up to get Coimbra out to the Reserve. Tomorrow also happens to be Coimbra's birthday.

I'm increasingly annoyed with Beate since she puts herself down in a very intrusive manner and is constantly offering to give or lend things which you do not really want. But always

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with some feeling of "hitch" attached. [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]]She bought me some canned palmitos & pickles & told me that I needn't pay since it was in exchange for lending her bicycles at Chincoteague.

Lou Ann seems pale, tense & at end of her rope. She clearly has too much too worry about the luncheon tomorrow & wants desperately to avoid [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] having responsibility for it since she has so much else to do.

Ben generally cheerful, but also tense at times.

Anyway a very peaceful dinner & early night.