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[[strikethrough]] MONDAY, JULY 6, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
188th Day   178 Days to come
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girl can give him all the youth & romance which he had felt he was losing - or about to lose for good - & he loves her lack of development because it is youthful & easily influenced & very precious. The result is that they will always retain each others big age difference as a precious addition to each other.

I have been working hard - struggling as usual over the last stages of that man, & I wonder that I can continue to struggle so hard & still not get too discouraged, & still have the sensation that with each moment of struggling I feel as if I am learning. [[strikethrough]] I wish I could [[/strikethrough]] To go back to Sarah - [[strikethrough]] her [[/strikethrough]] she & Stirling talked over the phone four hours altogether over the weekend - since they can't see each other. It is an experience to know that such love exists - I think [[strikethrough]] she [[/strikethrough]] they are more in love than than it is possible for most people to ever be. Love has such possibilities that I bet many people marry & live happily without ever knowing its rare possibilities, because a certain amount of it is enough to be convincing.


[[strikethrough]] TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1936 [[/strikethrough]]
189th Day   177 Days to come
May 7th

[[strikethrough]] I wish I could have kept that [[/strikethrough]] Poor Ellen's back has been paining her all winter apparently. I think love is probably the pain in her back - but [[strikethrough]] wi [[/strikethrough]] we shall see what Dr Neergaard [[Neergard]] says when I take her to him. Charlie Lindley asked me for a centerpiece of animals at the big dinner for Aunt E - who has just arrived from South Africa. I rashly said I'd make one in 2 days - & decided on a water-hole of an elephant, lion, zebra, giraffe & hippo - with a round magnifying mirror for the water. I first ordered clay which was impossible to model with, so I desperately took plasterlene - [[strikethrough]] sell shellaced them & in one day [[/strikethrough]] & worked all day & night while Ellen made armitures [[armatures]]a mile a minute as she seems to enjoy helping me & is wonderful with her fingers. I hunted all over town for paint that would stick to oil - shellaced the beasts - painted them with enamel paint - & lo & behold tonight I have [[strikethrough]] them [[/strikethrough]] another page out of my zoobook in the round. My room is once more the calm after the world's worst storm, with I the wreck that it caused.[[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] The calm exists only by comparison with its storm of paint, oil, clay, turpentine, wire, zoobooks - well I can only

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Arthur Neergard