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I don't respond. It's as if I didn't hear it. It's not that I'd say no, it's just I don't respond because I don't want a such a relationship with him. I would really brag because, well [[strikethrough]] she [[/strikethrough]] he's dead now, I don't think it matters.

For ten years I had wonderful relationship with Lou and Walter Arensberg. Just wonderful. One day Walter Arensberg, this was sixty years ago more or at least, was driving me back the hotel, he put his arms around me and began coming on.

I said, "No!" Now he is a very attractive man.

He said, "My wife allows me to play around."

I said, "No, not with her best friend." and I stopped it.

Months later, she said to me, "You're about the only woman I know with whom a another woman's husband is safe."

Of course one never knows, but I treasured that remark and it's true. I've had very wonderful relationships with the husbands of my friends.

I flirt a great deal. We all flirt more or less but we have to be careful not to hurt anybody.

D:  But, that's the most important thing. I mean to me it's always..it's so easy to turn it off because to me the most important thing is a relationship. And I think that I would never want a woman to do that to me. So it's not a possibility that I could do that to another woman.