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of a very charming Jew gentleman who exchanged $150 with me for a very charming wrist-watch. Then for an hour I leaned against a cold & weary lamp-post on Fifth Ave. & watched a parade until the Marseillaise was played & an old char woman & I, at the critical moment of our lives, burst into a flood of tears. Then, a total wreck of misery I dragged myself home, had dinner & went to the winter garden for the third time. That was the ruining moment. I fell deeply & amourously in love with Al Jolson (for the third time) & when in the intermission he made a speech for the Liberty Loan, I swept the blinding tears from my eyes, & signed for another bond — what fools