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DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942

DECEMBER 4 FRIDAY

Dad stayed home with a cold. 

Fair and cold. I went to school as usual - I got 89 on English test. After school I went to my [[strikethrough]] singling [[strikethrough]] singing lesson - on my way back I had to use up my last school ticket - have to get more Mon. & walk across bridge to save 8¢ (token). After I got home & ate & Dolores came over. We started the next lesson in German & I went to her house & she was teaching me shorthand when - (poor Dolores) 

Her father lay down on the rug with an awful pain in his chest & left arm. he vomited & collapsed when he walked upstairs. They put him on a bed & tried to get his Doctor (Dr Hammer) Then Mother came over for me & tried to get our Doctor (Dr Noland) We couldn't so called the police & an ambulance took him & Dolores's mother to the hospital Mt. Alto - he is a war veteran - doesn't cost anything! Dolores, 
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mother, and I stayed til her mother came home at 10:30 [[/right margin]]

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They don't think it was a heart attack - hope not.
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"The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt"-ROUSSEAU



DESKAIDE * THE SILENT SECRETARY * 1942

DECEMBER 5 SATURDAY

Dad stayed home - cold.

Fair & cold. After breakfast mother called the Mt. Alto Hospital (on Wisconsin Ave. - on way to Miss Leubins) & found he is seriously sick with Angina Pectoris - I thought so - we had just finished studying it Thursday in Gym - about diseases of heart. He probably won't be able to continue his job - as carpenter - Poor Dolores. Mother & I went downtown at 9:30. & bought - clipped on. Then we came home & at about 2:00 Dolores came over & I went to her house & stayed all afternoon - til 5:00 - while her mother was at hospital. He is fair - has an oxygen mask - blood clot - may not have angina pectoris. Still seriously ill. In the evening I stayed home & did homework. Betty Hedrick - (was absent Thur. & Fri.) called up for homework - short & [[strikethrough]] & fain [[/strikethrough]]fair & blonde - nice.

"Don't despair of a student if he was one clear idea"-EMMONS

Transcription Notes:
On left page, the sentence starting "They don't think" is part of the narrative that goes from the bottom of the page, up the right margin, referring to Dolores' father.