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DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942 OCTOBER 23 FRIDAY Fair. I went to school as usual. [[strikethrough]] after [[/strikethrough]] Dottie forgot the money. She'd better pay me. I got A+ in the Geometry test + A [[strikethrough]] + [[/strikethrough]] in [[right margin]] A [[/right margin]] the Gym test!! [[strikethrough]] (or [[??]] I forgot which) [[/strikethrough]] After school I went on the bus to the [[strikethrough]] [[??]] [[/strikethrough]] YWCA + did homework, etc. til mother came over for me + we went to Woman's University Club where Dad, Miss Colcord + Miss Hawke met us + we had dinner - I had ham, potatoe, Lima beans avocado (I didn't eat - tastes awful) + tomato salad + ice cream + cake and milk. Then we talked + came home - got home at 9:30 - rode on bus. [[line drawn across page]] me & 2 pictures of John Cary. He's awfully cute. [[Footnote]] "Habit is ten times nature"-WELLINGTON [[right page]] DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942 OCTOBER 24 SATURDAY Fair. At 9:30 Dolores came over + we waited for a bus for a long time. Then we walked to Clarendon (mother told me to ride to save my leg.) Dolores has 2 other brothers - a boy of 9 who can not go to school because he has had hemi[[strikethrough]] [[??]] [[/strikethrough]]plegia from birth, and a boy of 20 who works in navy yard. We met Rita there + took bus to Washington - we got there + went to the museum where we looked around, then to art (Mellon) Gallery. Then we ate at ↑[[up arrow to Mellon]] - 25¢ for me (salad, milk (6¢), pie), 20¢ for them, one milk. Then she waited at while we walked to shopping district - I got a blue belt, 2 nighties for Grandma + Mrs. Barry + a 5¢ note notebook for me. Dolores tried at two stores to get shoes for Cadets. (she is in at Washington Lee) + a cute gold dog with her name on it (28¢) [[/right margin]] [[in margin at top of page upside down]] Then we went home. I [[/in margin at top of page upside down]] [[left margin]] stayed at Delores's for awhile + [[ate game??]] [[/left margin]] [[Footnote]] "Ability and necessity dwell near each other"-PYTHAGORAS