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know I shall not be able to--I met Jack thru John.  He is a Freshman and is 16 years old.  He is amusing, cultured sensuous and incidentally very ugly.--

It was hard breaking away from the conformers.  It really cause me moments of agony and how horribly ironical that John should desert me just as I felt today that I completely risen above them.  Jack and John both went to hear Galli-Curci--and also I went.  John was strangely reticent as we talked

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[[preprinted]] [[underlined]] March 19 [[/underlined]] [[/preprinted]]

and laughed a great deal.  We were together from 1 pm  till 1 am;--Jack & I left the next morning on the early train and John stayed until afternoon.  I enjoyed Jack coming back - he talks a great deal and says everything risqué he can.  It is not with the object of shocking me for I has found that he can not - but because he likes to create [[strikethrough]] d [[/strikethrough]] atmosphere of complete unreserve--frankness, rather.  He knows very much more than I do.  He told me I was the only person he could not laugh at.  He is very old at times--and