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Deskaide * The Silent Secretary * 1941

March
31
Tuesday
 
Fair - I went to school. The snow is almost
gone.  Dolores was absent today.  I brought her her homework.  She still has tonsilitus.  She might to have her tonsils out.  I got a letter + Easter Card from Mrs. Cutting, my nurse (white) (when I was 2-5)  I call "Auntie".  I began an Easter surprise for Mother - I glued 4 match boxes on boxtop
 -
Wed' Cont 
Barbara's phone no Glebe 0692. Address - 316 South Edgewood St.  
Barbara has to boy friends (Barry and Dwight) I painted all draws in bureau
dark blue + gave them paper fasteners & put blue each on end
[[image of box tops and draws stacked]]


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Deskaide * The Silent Secretary * 1941

written upside down on top of page: I really believed it at first

written down left side of page: April fools joke I found when I called her on phone

also:  I say Barbara on way home from 5 + 10 - (new store on Lee Boulavard)


have never been to before - where I got paper fasteners) Her address (arrow pointing up)
Fair. I went to school. I [[strikethrough]]borrow[[/strikethrough]] bought 5 (cents sign) worth of erasers
+ used up my last 5 (cents sign)on a 6 (cents sign) box of long paper
fasteners 1 inch long - O
(15 in box.) I wrote auntie a11 card.  Barbara Bank (no "s") (girl (14 yrs old) who is in all
my classes except study hall when she helps librarian, Miss Himes - very pretty. long brown pageboy hair (drawing of girl) + olive complexion [[strikethrough]]she[[/strikethrough]] seldom [[strikethrough]][[?]][[/strikethrough]]
wears hair ribbon, stubby cute nose, pretty mouth + eyes. I and Clare Bissel (girl (14 yrs old) who is in my 4th + 9th period classes (Latin + Social Sciences) is not pretty, has long straight black hair [[drawing of girl]] + long face, They pretend that a colored man in Barbara's home had stolen 3 bullets from Barbara's gun (revolver) (Barbara + Clare can ride horses + cars and that they wouldn't let him get away + Barbara had her revolver + Clare had a big brown [[?]].