May 14, 2024 • 49 mins
Sears Radio Theater was a radio drama anthology series which ran weeknights on CBS Radio in 1979, sponsored by the Sears chain. Often paired with The CBS Radio Mystery Theater during its first season, the program offered a different genre of drama for each evening's broadcast.In January 1980, the program moved from CBS to the Mutual Broadcasting System and was renamed Mutual Radio Theater. The Mutual series broadcast repeats from the CBS run until September 1980, when a short season of new dramas was presented. Sears continued as a sponsor during the Mutual run.
The program turned out to be Mutual's final radio drama series. Mutual continued to broadcast repeats of the program (along with a few previously unaired episodes) until December 1981.Monday was "Western Night" and was hosted by Lorne Greene. Tuesday was "Comedy Night", hosted by Andy Griffith. Wednesday was "Mystery Night" with Vincent Price as host. Thursday was "Love and Hate Night" with Cicely Tyson doing honors as host. Finally, Friday brought "Adventure Night", first hosted by Richard Widmark and later by Howard Duff and finally by Leonard Nimoy.Several actors from the Golden Age of Radio were featured on the series.
Among the actors heard were Jim Jordan, Henry Morgan, Daws Butler, June Foray, Parley Baer, Mary Jane Croft, Howard Culver, John Dehner, Joan McCall, Don Diamond, Virginia Gregg, Janet Waldo, Vic Perrin, Hans Conried, Marvin Miller, Elliott Lewis, Jeff Corey, Lesley Woods, Robert Rockwell, Lurene Tuttle, Eve Arden, Keith Andes, Harriet Nelson, Alan Young, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Lloyd Bochner, Rick Jason, Frank Campanella, Toni Tennille, Arthur Hill, Dan O'Herlihy, Jesse White and Frank Nelson.[1] Veteran radio actress Peggy Webber was heard on 52 episodes.The program was produced and directed by Fletcher Markle and Elliott Lewis. The theme music was composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle
The program turned out to be Mutual's final radio drama series. Mutual continued to broadcast repeats of the program (along with a few previously unaired episodes) until December 1981.Monday was "Western Night" and was hosted by Lorne Greene. Tuesday was "Comedy Night", hosted by Andy Griffith. Wednesday was "Mystery Night" with Vincent Price as host. Thursday was "Love and Hate Night" with Cicely Tyson doing honors as host. Finally, Friday brought "Adventure Night", first hosted by Richard Widmark and later by Howard Duff and finally by Leonard Nimoy.Several actors from the Golden Age of Radio were featured on the series.
Among the actors heard were Jim Jordan, Henry Morgan, Daws Butler, June Foray, Parley Baer, Mary Jane Croft, Howard Culver, John Dehner, Joan McCall, Don Diamond, Virginia Gregg, Janet Waldo, Vic Perrin, Hans Conried, Marvin Miller, Elliott Lewis, Jeff Corey, Lesley Woods, Robert Rockwell, Lurene Tuttle, Eve Arden, Keith Andes, Harriet Nelson, Alan Young, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Lloyd Bochner, Rick Jason, Frank Campanella, Toni Tennille, Arthur Hill, Dan O'Herlihy, Jesse White and Frank Nelson.[1] Veteran radio actress Peggy Webber was heard on 52 episodes.The program was produced and directed by Fletcher Markle and Elliott Lewis. The theme music was composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle
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At seven and a half minutes pastten, time for the Seers Radio Theater.
That's the theme from the Seers RadioTheater to night, a program of
love and Hate with Sicily Tyson asyour hostess. Here's a preview A ring
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shouldn't say that about a ring.You shouldn't ever say things like that unless
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A public service message on behalf ofUnderwriter's laboratories and this station. This is
Sicily Tyson. We're all familiar withthat romantic phenomenon called love at first time.
Some of us may have actually experiencedit, either as the one who
loves or the one who is theobject of that love. Most of the
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rest of us have seen it,or at least heard about it happening to
other people. It's always better,of course, if the phenomena is this.
If it is mutual, then it'sa pleasure to be part of it,
or even to observe it. Ifit isn't mutual, then it's often
a puzzle for all concerned. Thestory you're about to hear involves love at
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first sight and the separate ways inwhich three different people remember how it happened.
One of them is an outsider.He reacted to her like I hit
on the head the moment she steppedout of the shadows into the lamplight on
the porch that night. I can'tsay it was love at first sight,
but he always insisted it was thenthere's a young man himself. She was
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one of the most beautiful women I'veever known her. She wasn't a woman,
really a girl. But I feltsomething big and important inside me,
and I made a mistake about it, and of course the young lady in
question. After a few days,he started to look at me more and
more in that funny way he lookedat me when we were first introduced.
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Other men have looked at me thatway, and I've never liked it,
but with him it was different.And that's only the beginning of our story.
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As I mentioned earlier, you're nowgoing to hear three different versions of the
same love story. The first version, Act one of our play is told
from the point of view of anoutsider. He is neither the one who
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loves nor the one who is theobject of that love, but he is
a valuable witness to the occasion.It was one of those unimportant affairs that
you associate with a certain time ofyour life, a certain season, and
a certain place. Unimportant, butthe kind of thing that sticks in your
memory, like a sprained ankle ora near miss on the freeway. And
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whenever something turns up to remind youof that time and that season and that
place, you remember it very clearly. There were three of us that summer,
Charlie Holmes, myself and Clym Waldron. It was a warm and sticky
August, about six years ago,and all we wanted was two weeks of
a good time going up to theisland on the lake boat. Standing at
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the rail, Charlie said, Iplan to become of vegetables. I want
to sit in the sun and sweptand vegetate. But two weeks, my
friends, all I want to dois vegetates that'll last about one day.
Hey, look at that sloop trimvery Why don't we hurry up and get
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there. I hate the boats.That won't be long now, Clem,
that's the island over there the otherside of us to port. Stop it
off, right, all right?In a minute, you them. Let's
collect our stuff. Your turn tocarry the record player water. If we're
here, I'll carry anything. Halfan hour, I be sitting in the
sun on a porch of our littlecottage, prepared to be a vegetables.
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It was that kind of summer,and we were feeling that kind of crazy.
The island was one of those littleislands, about two hours run up
the lake from the city, aresort, a vacation community alive less than
six months of the year. Therewere a lot of ordinary summer cottages sloping
up from a pocket harbor at thesouthern end, a lot of ordinary summer
noises and smells, and a lotof unbelievably wonderful summer girls wearing very little
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more than their sun tans. Thethree of us work in an advertising agency,
a pretty soft routine, but emptyand unsatisfactory enough to make it good
to get away. We got threeweeks of vacation every year, two in
July or August, one at Christmas, and Charlie and I had always gone
off someplace for those weeks and pretendedwe hated the advertising game and acted like
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the foolish bachelors. We surely wordthat summer was Waldron's first vacation since the
agency, and we asked him togo along, because we had lunched and
partied together a few times, andhe was a nice guy and didn't know
many people in town. After we'dcleaned out the cottage and had some supper
and looked the place over, thestores, wharf, boat houses, hotel,
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the open air dance pavilion, picnicgrounds. Nothing changed, only grayer
and older. By one winter wesat on the porch and smoked. It
was about ten o'clock and fully dark, and Charlie said, I like the
cottage we had last year better.Why this place is all right? Last
year's had screams on the screen door. Oh we can fix that when at
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the back's the only bad one?Where are we from the place you guys
had last year? Enough for aroundthe other side of the bluffs, cottages
here are all the same, operatedby the hotel rents the same dirt,
says same ha ha, female merriments. That sounds interesting next door? Is
it? No? The cottage aheadto the left on the edge of the
bluffs, there's three of them.They're alone. How come is and when
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did you get this encyclopedic information?Waldron? Before supper when I went out
for cigarettes and you didn't think itworth mentioning, I forgot about it?
Are they that bad? I've onlyseen one of them? She was hanging
out some washing. We talked froma domestic tableau. What's he look like?
How old? Was she twenty threeor four, I'd say, what'd
you talk about? The island,the weather, vacations? Uh, neighbors,
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that's more like it. How longhave you been here? They came
yesterday? Shall we take our chances, Charlie? We will. How's our
beer supply? Three six packs?With the groceries we lugged over this afternoon?
Right, we had a bobble keyantiwith a spaghett tonight, leaving two
unopened? Right right? Where's theflashlight? Oh on the table? Besides
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you gotcha? Okay, go ahead? Well, what's the matter with you
sitting there mumping on that pipe?I came up here to relax, Charlie,
not to go on fox hunts offof peage sake, Walter, don't
let me stop you. You'll cooperate, though, won't you clean? Oh
sure, Mike. I'll talk toone of them and do your stuff,
Charlie. But if they don't lookintelligent, don't feel bad about coming back
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alone. You know me, Mac, I'm a trustworthy guy, and I
can start being a vegetable tomorrow.Charlie disappeared into the darkness, and we
watched his flashlight swing along the pathto the cottage on the bluffs. We
heard him knock on their door,and the door opened with a splash of
light. Charlie talked and laughed withhim for a few minutes, and then
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we saw them all coming out thefront door and the door closed. It
was dark again, and there wasonly Charlie's flashlight coming along the path leading
the way. Hey, let's havesome lad on the porch. Oh,
better light the lamp, Mac lamp? Oh, sure you got a match
on the table there? Okay,you got him. I hope Charlie didn't
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get us tied up to a packof dogs and three lonely women not knowing
each other. That sort of thingcan't be allowed a welcome. Let me
see if I can get all thenames straight. Friend, This is Clem
Waldron and Mac mcfederick. Hello,Hi, Hello, and Helen? What's
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your last name? Is Rowley?That Clem Waldron? Helen? Oh?
Hi, we met herself the time, didn't we we did? There was
a lot of laundry for a shortclothes line. Let me get the formalities
over with. And Mac mcfedrie's Helen. Hi. That's a complicated name,
O colby Mac? And where's Mary? Don't hide? Come on, Mary,
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you are Mary? Thomas. Itis Thomas, isn't it. Mary's
kind of shy. She likes tojust nod her head. Mary mac mcfrederi's
Hello Mary, and Clem Wall HelloMary. Yes, yeah, well,
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let's all sit down, saw somethingto drink the words out and spreading fast.
About the genes from Sears Man's storethat grow beautifully. It's a sure
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sign they're feeling fine and feeling good. For the denim that keeps going strong
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mistake is blocked out. Next typethe correct letter, then proceed is Daddy.
I sell draperies at Sears. Yesterdaya lady came in and said that
she'd been in and out of aboutevery store in town looking for draperies,
and at this point didn't know whatshe wanted anymore. I asked questions about
her tastes and decor and then madesuggestions. She was thrilled she found what
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she wanted and learned a little too. It made me feel good to know
that I helped her out. Searspeople are friendly people who help you find
what you want. Mary was anItalian girl, two generations removed from the
old Country, and that Thomas wasfor Thomassino, a grandfather's gestured to citizenship
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in his adopted home. She wasslim and dark and quiet, very beautiful,
and very well female. Waldron reactedto her like a hit on the
head the moment she stepped out ofthe shadows into the lamplight on the porch
that night. I can't say itwas love at first sight, but Waldron
always insisted it was. I thinkit was just a sharp awareness of a
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bachelor's loneliness and the sudden shock offinding unexpected beauty as a neighbor in a
summer place like the island, notmuch more, at least it didn't seem
so at first. Mary and Helenwere elevator operators in a department store and
Fran. The third girl was awaitress. Helen was only playing, according
to Waldron, and we got alongfine. Fran and Charlie hit it off
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too, without having very much incommon. Both Charlie and Eileen pretty heavily
on that easy intimacy that goes withrom on the beach, the shared preparation
of meals and warm summer nights withnothing on your mind but the weight of
the stars. At first it lookedlike a good holiday. Beginning the next
morning, after a long night sittingout on the porch getting to know each
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other, we talked back and forthas if we were all living in the
same cottage, ignoring the hundred yardsthat separated us. Going out of the
beach, it's Fran and he turna surferan now me right, sure,
Helen, you better get into yourtrunks. I'll just be a second.
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Where's Waldron? Where do you think? Clym took Mary to the beach an
hour ago. I wondered, wheremy it's going to be like that?
Ah looks like it. Will youkeep me company, Michael, buddy me
you can count on. Clam andMary kept their own hours, had their
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own meals at the hotel or apicnical at the beach or out in a
rented boat, and the four ofus were left to ourselves. We kidded
Waldron about it whenever we saw him, and Waldron said, I'm in love.
He said it often, but hesaid it as if he were trying
to convince himself, I'm in love. I love that girl. It was
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embarrassing, even for Charlie and me, who knew him pretty well or thought
we did, but he was likesome kind of zombie. Helen and Fran
told us that Mary didn't say anythingmuch about it. At night when the
girls went to bed, just toldhim that Clement said he was in love
with her and gave them no indicationof her own feelings. Whenever we saw
Clam and Mary at the beach,or in the open air dance or sitting
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out on the bluffs at night,it was like seeing a couple of strangers.
Charlie and I always thought of Waldron'spainful words, I'm in love,
I love that girl. It turnedout to be a pretty disappointing holiday for
Charlie and me. I don't knowhow it affected Helen and Fran. After
they went back to town at theend of their two weeks a day ahead
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of us. We never saw themagain. Mary stayed over an extra day
and the four of us went backtogether, but Charlie and I might just
as well have been on another boatfor all it mattered. We never did
find out what happened between them,because Waldron was transferred to an eastern office
of the agency soon after we gotback, and we weren't really close enough
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friends to correspond. The whole businesswas pretty trivial, I guess, but
I remember it whenever I see agirl who looks like Mary, that olive
skin, you know, that mysteriousthing about really beautiful Latin women, or
when I go to a place likethe Island for a holiday, or just
happened to think about people you meetin the summertime. It was one of
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those things you remember how it started, that first moment, but not much
more after that. It gets toocomplicated. Hello Mary. Clym was tall.
Clem was very tall and thin,and he looked at me in a
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funny way when we were first introduced. Hello Mary, he said, only
in a funny way, like heknew me before, or was scared of
me or something. It was ata summer camp I went to one year
with Helen Rowley and Franny Howard.We took a cottage at the camp,
the three of us putting all ourvacation money together to pay the rent and
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have enough for food for the twoweeks and everything. It was a lovely
cottage overlooking the lovely bay at thecamp, and the three guys were in
another cottage just back of us,Clem I mean, and his friends.
Clem talked to Helen one night whileshe was hanging washing, and then one
of Clem's friends I forget's name,dropped over later and talked to all of
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us and asked us to come andbe sociable with our neighbors, and we
all went. That was when Imet Clem, when we all went over
to their place, and he spoketo me in that funny way. Hello,
Mary Sears Radio Theater. We'll returnafter this message from your local station.
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Listen with your heart and you hearmore than her grandma. Yes,
sweetheart, did my mother ever doanything bad? Well? What do you
mean did you? I couldn't parole. Listen with your heart and you'll hear.
Love seems to me. I hadto remind her to clean up her
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room. On occasion. Sometimes Iget too, he will. Everyone forgets
once in a while. Listen withyour heart and hard best grandma does my
mom loves Jimmy more than me.No, you know your mother used to
ask me that about her brother.Really listen with yall your hair. You
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remind me I'm awful out of yourmother when she was a living girl.
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There. I me G Marshall,your host for these hour long dramas of
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hush, my dad. Your motheris taking care of all of you.
I'm nothing to fear that those whomove against us learned powers, care,
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I choose to clak myself. Listenhere for CBS Radio mystery theaters seven times
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different view of our love story,an inside version from the young lady in
question. Hello Mary. We talkedon their porch for hours and hours that
night, and Clem's friends was reallyfunny, telling jokes and asking crazy questions.
Clem was very nice to me andtalk to me a lot more than
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you talked to Helen or Franni,and we had a lovely time. The
next day, Clem took me tothe beach and out to launch at the
hotel, and then out in arow boat he rented for the afternoon,
and then to the hotel again forsupper. That night, we got cushions
and a rug and went and saton the bluffs a little ways below the
front of our cottage and looked downat the bay and the boats that were
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always there. It was a lovelyevening and time was very nice. I
can remember almost everything he said.How old are you Mary? Yes,
I could, but I think i'dbe wrong. Try. Oh, I'm
sure i'd be wrong. Go on, Yes, twenty two twenty two?
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Am I right? Yes? Oh, I spoiled it. I had to
go and guess it the first time. Did you want me to think you
were older? No? Younger?No? Well then I guess. I
just didn't want you to guess right, that's all. It's no fun when
somebody guess is right. I know. Well, I was going to say
twenty three. I almost said twentythree? Did you? You're very,
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very beautiful? Mary? Oh?He is so browns? How did you
get so much son in only twodays? Oh? That isn't your son,
of course not. I forgot.Uh. What's the Thomas for Thomasino?
That's your real name? Is Thomas? Is my real name? Now?
Thomasino is my grandfather's name at home? Were you born here? Oh?
Yes? So why wasn't I luckyenough to meet you back in this
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city? Well, there's a lotof people in our town, A lot
of girls. I bet you knowa lot of girls back in town twenty
none at all like you? Isthat your GM? Mary? Yes?
Are you all y? Yes?Okay? Helen and Frannie are always worrying
about me, just like mom athome. How many in your family?
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A lot? How many? Seven? That's a big family. I'll say
you should hear them. Brothers,sisters, five brothers, one sister,
so noisy your sister, all ofthem? Do they tease you much?
George? George does? And Tinais your sister older or younger? Oh?
Younger. I'm the oldest of allof them, are you? I
would have thought you were the youngestme. Are you kidding? I don't
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know why I would have not that. Oh it's lovely out here. Oh
that moon. When I came outon the porch this morning, real early,
the moon was still out. Wasn'tWhat were you doing up at that
hour after such a late night?Couldn't you sleep? Not really? Just
still getting used to being in astrange place, I guess, and meeting
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you and your nice friends last nightand everything. I was too excited to
sleep a real And suddenly there wasthe moon this morning, same old moon.
Oh, please, clem, pleasedon't Mary. You shouldn't do that.
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Why not. I don't know you. I don't know how you hardly
at all. Oh, you shouldn'tdo that. I'm twenty five years old,
born in Winetka, went to schoolin Winetka, in Chicago and the
University of oh A brother and twosisters working advertising, unmarried, unattached,
unhappy, and I think here kissedme again, Clem. No, doesn't
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it feel good when I hold youlike this? Yes, you were bad.
Clem wasn't really bad. But aftera few days he started to look
at me more and more in thatfunny way he looked at me. When
we were first introduced. I seenother men look at me that way,
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and I never liked it, Butwhen Clem looked at me that way,
it seemed alright. Because Clim wassuch a fine person. He took me
everywheres on the island, and atthe end of a week there wasn't any
place left. We didn't go.We just lay on the beach after that,
and went to the hotel for lunchand sat out on the bluffs at
night after dancing. Clam told mehe loved me one night and asked me
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if I loved him, and Icouldn't tell him if I did or not
because I didn't know. And whenI told Helen and Franny that Clym said
he loved me, they asked mehow I felt, and I couldn't tell
them either one way or the other. I just didn't know. Summertime fools
a girl about love sometimes. Thesecond to last night at the camp,
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we went down to the wharf andsat at the end and dropped lighted matches
in the water below us. Thatmust be a radio on one of the
boats out there. It's lovely.Why don't we dance? Dance? You
mean you're on the wharf. Whynot come on up on our feet?
Claim the matches in your cigarette?To give me your hands. The whole
package went in the water. Haveyou got any more? It doesn't matter.
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Just let me hold you. There. No crowding on this desk for
Oh, it's uh. Let's wrapon these planks. Pick up your feet,
Clam, I can't, of courseyou can. Oh, oh,
I'm sorry. Die. Don't youknow that step? No? No,
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I look down watch my feet.I don't know that one. It's the
one I told you last night.But I can't. It's hard to hear
the music now, isn't it.Please Clam, let's stop. Let's just
sit all right. Give me yourhand when I get down. Watch yourself
hang on, ah there, whatare you doing? Your wonderful hair?
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It feels like like so soft?Oh you it's just a hair. No,
no, it isn't careful. I'mall right, you'll fall if that's
worse, ol glim glehn. Weall saw it's not a chance. Here,
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take hold of my hand, ifwe all had to get all right.
Oh it's a beautiful hand. Ohit's awful dirty these flanks. You
don't wear any jewelry at all?Do you? No rings, no bracelets,
not even a watch. Well Ido have a watch, of course
you've seen it. But I've beenleaving in at the college lately because you
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know, going to beat you everyday and taking it on and off.
I didn't want to lose it.But nothing else except that little gold cross
around your neck. Oh I alwayswear that. That's hardly something I could
lose with all this hair. Besides, that's different. It's that what I
think of is jewelry. It's it'sit's there because you're a good Catholic.
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Of course, what is it?They say? Devoted, devout both,
I guess. Anyways, it's notlike wearing rings and bracelets and all that.
A ring would look look wonderful onthis finger. Clam. You shouldn't
say that. You shouldn't say thatabout a ring. You shouldn't ever say
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things like that unless you mean it. No, yes, I do,
clam Please would you marry me ifI asked you to? Oh no,
Clem, you mustn't say that.I'm no. It don't seem right when
when when that's not what you want? That's not what you want, Clem,
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I want you. Yes, that'snot the same Mary, No,
Clem, all right, I wishI had a cigarette. I stayed over
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at the camp and extra day.I had an extra day owing from a
day work last Christmas, and wentback to the city with Clem and his
friends. It was a lovely tripon the boat, and Clem made me
promise to let him take me outthe next night. He had a car,
but it was being fixed while hewas on his holiday. He wanted
to take me home in a taxifrom the boat, but I didn't want
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him to. I didn't want himto come out before I could tell about
him to Mom and Papa. WhenI told him, Mamma was happy,
but Papa was angry because he saidhe always had to look at somebody before
I went out with him. AndI was glad. I didn't say too
much like the Clem said he lovedme, or that he wanted to marry
me. The next night, Clyncame around for me about eight. I
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had on my favorite pants, suit, just cleaned, and we went dancing,
but Clem said it was too crowdedand he was tired, so we
went to a drive in for somecoffee. When he took me home,
he said something about calling me andwe'd go dancing someplace where it wasn't so
crowded, But I didn't hear fromhim again. Ever. Maybe it would
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have been different if I'd said yesto him, either when we were up
at the island or when he askedme to go to his apartment back here
in town. But he knew Icouldn't say yes to him. He knew
that very well, so must havebeen something else. I was five or
six years ago, But every summersince then, when I've gone to a
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camp and met other nice people,I think of Clyn. Even last year
after I was married, when Ricoand me had the very same cottage as
Helen Franny and Me had that summeri met Clyn, I thought of him.
I really think of him quite alot. That funny way he looked
at me when we were first introduced. Rico never looks at me that way.
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of sometime every summer time, inwhich you are going to hear what really
happened at the end of our lovestory? Aversion from the young man in
question. Hello, Mary. Shewas one of the most beautiful women I've
ever known. She wasn't a woman, really a girl, a beautiful animal,
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a wonderful gesture of nature. Shewas Italian American born, and we
met at a summer place, oneof those island resorts I went to one
year with mcfrederi's and Holmes when Iwas in the Chicago office. I only
knew her a little more than twoweeks, But sometime every summer since then,
I've thought of her. At first, of course, I thought I
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was in love with her. Atone point I even considered marrying her.
Whatever it was, I wanted her, and it was like a fever.
It wasn't normal. It was veryfoolish and untidy, and I went about
it like a schoolboy. I rememberhearing Mac and Charlie talking about it one
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night. They were out on theporch and hadn't heard me come in the
back door. He says he's inlove with him. That mean any of
a dozen things, sure, butnot the way he says it. I
don't know why he says it atall. He keeps saying if that's what
confuses me, he keeps insisting onit. It's just not like Waldron.
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She is beautiful, mic I'll giveyou that, sure, no question,
but hardly Waldron's type. What doyou mean by that, well, an
elevator operator, maybe only a yearof high school, maybe not even that.
If you say poor, but honest, I'll leave this conversation. Okay,
okay, But you know what Imean. At least you know Waldron
superficially. He isn't a Catholic,I know that much, man. But
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she is, that's for sure.She wears that little cross on her neck
chain with great pride, always touchingit. I don't know what is it
they say about summer romances. Couldn'ttell you, no, you could make
it up. I guess for allit matters. Pretty obvious example with Waldron,
if you ask me, I wastoo annoyed to walk in conversation,
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and I suppose I didn't particularly wantthem to know I'd been listening. Nobody
likes that kind of thing. Thatwas the night I asked her to marry
me. She refused, of course, and was very embarrassed with my asking.
I must have sounded pretty hollow,now that I think back on it,
I felt something big and important insideme. I made a mistake about
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it. It was simply a caseof not being aware of that nice difference
between love and desire. But sheknew. She knew all along. She
was a thrilling kind of a girlto be with. When she wasn't in
her bathing suit, she wore brightblouses and slacks. A lot of women
must have hated her for her loveliness. I think I hated her a little
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myself. She wasn't mine. Whenwe went back to the city, we
took the late evening boat and watchingthe moonlight on the lake from the observation
deck helped us stretch out the lastfew hours of the holiday. Are you
making your wish on a clam onone on our lovely moon? Of course,
you've been so quiet looking up atit out there. I thought maybe
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you was making a wish. Iwas looking at the stars, wishing on
one of them. No, thinkingabout you and me in the last two
weeks. That's nice. It's sonice to stand here like this with your
arm around me. And if you'renot going to wish on the moon,
then I will. What did youwish for? Oh? You, You
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can't ever tell anybody what you wishfor. If you tell about it's liable
not to come true. It justhas to be a secret between me and
the moon. But you can tellme what it was you was thinking about
the last two weeks, because thoughtsaren't the same as wishes mine are.
It was a lovely holiday, wasn'tit. It was more than nice for
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me anyway? It was another world? Is that what you was thinking about
just now? Partly? But Idon't think I should tell you about the
rest? Why not? It mightspoil your wish. You better not do
that. When we got back tothe city. She wanted to go home
alone, refusing to let me takeher in a taxi, so I got
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her address and made a date tocall for her the following night. It
was an address in the far eastside of town, and when I drove
out of my car the next night, I had trouble finding it. It
was a narrow, two story housebetween a bakery and a metal workshop.
It was still daylight, no lightson, and you wouldn't have thought anybody
lived there. I went loudly upthe steps of the low porch to the
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door, trying to trample down withmy feet. The thoughts that were running
through my head, how are yougood evening? I is you, mister
WALDERN yes, is I'm George.We saw your car pull up. My
sister just yelled down that she'd onlybe a minute. Come on in,
thank you. Uh now, Georgiaturn that o are you are you?
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Mister? Sit down, mister Walder, excuse us. The supper dishes that
Mama took the children to the earlymovie show. I've seen the picture.
It's loud hut. Nice to seeyou, mister Walderer. I don't think
she'll be so long. Gurs,of course, it's perfectly all right,
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lots of time. Who are business? Are you? And mister Waldron?
Business? Oh? I was anadvertising agency. I'm a grocery business myself.
You happen to notice my store inthe next block next door? No?
No, that's always she and skiI'm down the next block. No
I didn't notice it. No,what do you do in the advertising business,
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mister Waldron? Billboards and all likethat? Yes, yes, I
like that. Uh huh business good? Oh yeah, it's pretty good.
What are you doing good too?Oh yeah, oh yes she is?
Oh God, up to go places? She she smelled good this time.
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She was wearing a shiny knit pantssuit that had been worn too often and
was too small for her. Shehad her long hair pulled up into a
sort of tight braid wound around herhead, and somehow she didn't seem to
be the same girl I'd fallen inlove with two weeks earlier. She was
still beautiful, very much so,but she looked a little tacky, and
there was a feeling of fun easinessabout her. We went dancing and it
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wasn't any good. It wasn't thesame as it had been at the open
air for the day on the island. You remember last night, Clem,
when I wished on the moon.Of course I remember. Well, guess
what now I can tell you whatI wished, But didn't you say a
wish might not come true if youtold somebody about it. It's all right
now, because it did come true. It did. Oh, yes,
you see, last night on theboat, I didn't think I was ever
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going to see you again, andthat's what I wished for, that I
would see you. And here youare. Oh, yes, here I
am. I'm stepping all over toyou. I'm so sorry. No,
don't be please, It was meas much as you. We're both pretty
tired. I guess, first dayback at our jobs hard to get used
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to the same old routine again.How to go? If you, Clem,
didn't it all feel like an awfulletdown? Oh, it certainly did,
all that work piled up on mydesk, but at least I could
sit down to it. You you'vebeen on your feet all hands. I'll
say. They're having some kind ofend of summer sale at the store,
and I got stuck with an elevatorthat had a busted seat. You know,
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those little seats that fold out forthe operator. To perch on.
You miss not having it, Believeme, when you're real busy on a
salesdoce course you do fight no oneabout that. I never would have suggested
we go dancing. Why not?Well, after you've been on your feet
all day running an elevator with noplace to striving, and also fat your
pop It calls it, you know, but I don't mind it. Usually
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you get to see all different kindsof people. You wonder where they can
I'm from, what they're gonna buy, how they can afford it. It's
softly crowded, isn't there. I'llsay it's as bad as a full elevator.
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Would you like to go? Whydon't we? Why don't we drive
over to my apartment and sit outon the balcony. I've got a marvelous
view of these no clam You knowI can't do that, not yet.
Then why don't we go someplace quietand have a coffee? All right?
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I realized I'd become so used tobeing alone with her during those two weeks
on the island that now I couldn'tstand sharing her with other people. We
ended up sitting in my car anda drive in halfway back to her house,
But even there we weren't able tobe by ourselves. The car hop
who served us turned out to bea friend of hers. So when did
you get home? Then? Justlast night? Today was my first day
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back at work. So how isthe island this year? Did you have
a good time? I'll say wehad a lovely time. Is that where
you met this one? It was, as a matter of fact, this
is Clem Waldron Peg, but ClemPeggy Onnea, Hello Peggy, Hi Clem.
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About time we got introduced with ustwo talking across you like this all
the time. Well, I'd betterhustle some more trays. I see some
lights on? Can I hot upyour coffee for you? No more for
me? Thanks Peg, cleam,just to check? Please you want the
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bad news? You got the badnews and that's for you. Please keep
the change. Well, hanks alot. That's the best keepers I've had
all night. Be right there?All finished? Shall I take the tray?
Yes, I'll finished. Thanks mypleasure and thank you, good night
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Peg, good night. Han.Don't do anything I wouldn't do see it
matth on Sunday. I'm sorry,Clam. She means, well, of
course she does. I really amsorry, though none of it was the
same, none of it was anygood. I took her home and told
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her i'd call her, and droveback to my apartment the long way.
I got word that I was tobe transferred East a couple of days later,
and I didn't call her. Icouldn't. It's very difficult for a
man to get over realizing that he'sa snob. Funny. She was so
important to me for those two wonderfulweeks, and now I can't even remember
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At seven and a half minutes pastten, time for the Seers Radio Theater.
That's the theme from the Seers RadioTheater to night, a program of
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A public service message on behalf ofUnderwriter's laboratories and this station. This is
Sicily Tyson. We're all familiar withthat romantic phenomenon called love at first time.
Some of us may have actually experiencedit, either as the one who
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rest of us have seen it,or at least heard about it happening to
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If it is mutual, then it'sa pleasure to be part of it,
or even to observe it. Ifit isn't mutual, then it's often
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first sight and the separate ways inwhich three different people remember how it happened.
One of them is an outsider.He reacted to her like I hit
on the head the moment she steppedout of the shadows into the lamplight on
the porch that night. I can'tsay it was love at first sight,
but he always insisted it was thenthere's a young man himself. She was
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one of the most beautiful women I'veever known her. She wasn't a woman,
really a girl. But I feltsomething big and important inside me,
and I made a mistake about it, and of course the young lady in
question. After a few days,he started to look at me more and
more in that funny way he lookedat me when we were first introduced.
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Other men have looked at me thatway, and I've never liked it,
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As I mentioned earlier, you're nowgoing to hear three different versions of the
same love story. The first version, Act one of our play is told
from the point of view of anoutsider. He is neither the one who
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loves nor the one who is theobject of that love, but he is
a valuable witness to the occasion.It was one of those unimportant affairs that
you associate with a certain time ofyour life, a certain season, and
a certain place. Unimportant, butthe kind of thing that sticks in your
memory, like a sprained ankle ora near miss on the freeway. And
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whenever something turns up to remind youof that time and that season and that
place, you remember it very clearly. There were three of us that summer,
Charlie Holmes, myself and Clym Waldron. It was a warm and sticky
August, about six years ago,and all we wanted was two weeks of
a good time going up to theisland on the lake boat. Standing at
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the rail, Charlie said, Iplan to become of vegetables. I want
to sit in the sun and sweptand vegetate. But two weeks, my
friends, all I want to dois vegetates that'll last about one day.
Hey, look at that sloop trimvery Why don't we hurry up and get
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there. I hate the boats.That won't be long now, Clem,
that's the island over there the otherside of us to port. Stop it
off, right, all right?In a minute, you them. Let's
collect our stuff. Your turn tocarry the record player water. If we're
here, I'll carry anything. Halfan hour, I be sitting in the
sun on a porch of our littlecottage, prepared to be a vegetables.
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It was that kind of summer,and we were feeling that kind of crazy.
The island was one of those littleislands, about two hours run up
the lake from the city, aresort, a vacation community alive less than
six months of the year. Therewere a lot of ordinary summer cottages sloping
up from a pocket harbor at thesouthern end, a lot of ordinary summer
noises and smells, and a lotof unbelievably wonderful summer girls wearing very little
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more than their sun tans. Thethree of us work in an advertising agency,
a pretty soft routine, but emptyand unsatisfactory enough to make it good
to get away. We got threeweeks of vacation every year, two in
July or August, one at Christmas, and Charlie and I had always gone
off someplace for those weeks and pretendedwe hated the advertising game and acted like
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the foolish bachelors. We surely wordthat summer was Waldron's first vacation since the
agency, and we asked him togo along, because we had lunched and
partied together a few times, andhe was a nice guy and didn't know
many people in town. After we'dcleaned out the cottage and had some supper
and looked the place over, thestores, wharf, boat houses, hotel,
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the open air dance pavilion, picnicgrounds. Nothing changed, only grayer
and older. By one winter wesat on the porch and smoked. It
was about ten o'clock and fully dark, and Charlie said, I like the
cottage we had last year better.Why this place is all right? Last
year's had screams on the screen door. Oh we can fix that when at
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the back's the only bad one?Where are we from the place you guys
had last year? Enough for aroundthe other side of the bluffs, cottages
here are all the same, operatedby the hotel rents the same dirt,
says same ha ha, female merriments. That sounds interesting next door? Is
it? No? The cottage aheadto the left on the edge of the
bluffs, there's three of them.They're alone. How come is and when
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did you get this encyclopedic information?Waldron? Before supper when I went out
for cigarettes and you didn't think itworth mentioning, I forgot about it?
Are they that bad? I've onlyseen one of them? She was hanging
out some washing. We talked froma domestic tableau. What's he look like?
How old? Was she twenty threeor four, I'd say, what'd
you talk about? The island,the weather, vacations? Uh, neighbors,
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that's more like it. How longhave you been here? They came
yesterday? Shall we take our chances, Charlie? We will. How's our
beer supply? Three six packs?With the groceries we lugged over this afternoon?
Right, we had a bobble keyantiwith a spaghett tonight, leaving two
unopened? Right right? Where's theflashlight? Oh on the table? Besides
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you gotcha? Okay, go ahead? Well, what's the matter with you
sitting there mumping on that pipe?I came up here to relax, Charlie,
not to go on fox hunts offof peage sake, Walter, don't
let me stop you. You'll cooperate, though, won't you clean? Oh
sure, Mike. I'll talk toone of them and do your stuff,
Charlie. But if they don't lookintelligent, don't feel bad about coming back
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alone. You know me, Mac, I'm a trustworthy guy, and I
can start being a vegetable tomorrow.Charlie disappeared into the darkness, and we
watched his flashlight swing along the pathto the cottage on the bluffs. We
heard him knock on their door,and the door opened with a splash of
light. Charlie talked and laughed withhim for a few minutes, and then
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we saw them all coming out thefront door and the door closed. It
was dark again, and there wasonly Charlie's flashlight coming along the path leading
the way. Hey, let's havesome lad on the porch. Oh,
better light the lamp, Mac lamp? Oh, sure you got a match
on the table there? Okay,you got him. I hope Charlie didn't
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get us tied up to a packof dogs and three lonely women not knowing
each other. That sort of thingcan't be allowed a welcome. Let me
see if I can get all thenames straight. Friend, This is Clem
Waldron and Mac mcfederick. Hello,Hi, Hello, and Helen? What's
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your last name? Is Rowley?That Clem Waldron? Helen? Oh?
Hi, we met herself the time, didn't we we did? There was
a lot of laundry for a shortclothes line. Let me get the formalities
over with. And Mac mcfedrie's Helen. Hi. That's a complicated name,
O colby Mac? And where's Mary? Don't hide? Come on, Mary,
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you are Mary? Thomas. Itis Thomas, isn't it. Mary's
kind of shy. She likes tojust nod her head. Mary mac mcfrederi's
Hello Mary, and Clem Wall HelloMary. Yes, yeah, well,
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she wanted and learned a little too. It made me feel good to know
that I helped her out. Searspeople are friendly people who help you find
what you want. Mary was anItalian girl, two generations removed from the
old Country, and that Thomas wasfor Thomassino, a grandfather's gestured to citizenship
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in his adopted home. She wasslim and dark and quiet, very beautiful,
and very well female. Waldron reactedto her like a hit on the
head the moment she stepped out ofthe shadows into the lamplight on the porch
that night. I can't say itwas love at first sight, but Waldron
always insisted it was. I thinkit was just a sharp awareness of a
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bachelor's loneliness and the sudden shock offinding unexpected beauty as a neighbor in a
summer place like the island, notmuch more, at least it didn't seem
so at first. Mary and Helenwere elevator operators in a department store and
Fran. The third girl was awaitress. Helen was only playing, according
to Waldron, and we got alongfine. Fran and Charlie hit it off
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too, without having very much incommon. Both Charlie and Eileen pretty heavily
on that easy intimacy that goes withrom on the beach, the shared preparation
of meals and warm summer nights withnothing on your mind but the weight of
the stars. At first it lookedlike a good holiday. Beginning the next
morning, after a long night sittingout on the porch getting to know each
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other, we talked back and forthas if we were all living in the
same cottage, ignoring the hundred yardsthat separated us. Going out of the
beach, it's Fran and he turna surferan now me right, sure,
Helen, you better get into yourtrunks. I'll just be a second.
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Where's Waldron? Where do you think? Clym took Mary to the beach an
hour ago. I wondered, wheremy it's going to be like that?
Ah looks like it. Will youkeep me company, Michael, buddy me
you can count on. Clam andMary kept their own hours, had their
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own meals at the hotel or apicnical at the beach or out in a
rented boat, and the four ofus were left to ourselves. We kidded
Waldron about it whenever we saw him, and Waldron said, I'm in love.
He said it often, but hesaid it as if he were trying
to convince himself, I'm in love. I love that girl. It was
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embarrassing, even for Charlie and me, who knew him pretty well or thought
we did, but he was likesome kind of zombie. Helen and Fran
told us that Mary didn't say anythingmuch about it. At night when the
girls went to bed, just toldhim that Clement said he was in love
with her and gave them no indicationof her own feelings. Whenever we saw
Clam and Mary at the beach,or in the open air dance or sitting
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out on the bluffs at night,it was like seeing a couple of strangers.
Charlie and I always thought of Waldron'spainful words, I'm in love,
I love that girl. It turnedout to be a pretty disappointing holiday for
Charlie and me. I don't knowhow it affected Helen and Fran. After
they went back to town at theend of their two weeks a day ahead
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of us. We never saw themagain. Mary stayed over an extra day
and the four of us went backtogether, but Charlie and I might just
as well have been on another boatfor all it mattered. We never did
find out what happened between them,because Waldron was transferred to an eastern office
of the agency soon after we gotback, and we weren't really close enough
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friends to correspond. The whole businesswas pretty trivial, I guess, but
I remember it whenever I see agirl who looks like Mary, that olive
skin, you know, that mysteriousthing about really beautiful Latin women, or
when I go to a place likethe Island for a holiday, or just
happened to think about people you meetin the summertime. It was one of
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those things you remember how it started, that first moment, but not much
more after that. It gets toocomplicated. Hello Mary. Clym was tall.
Clem was very tall and thin,and he looked at me in a
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funny way when we were first introduced. Hello Mary, he said, only
in a funny way, like heknew me before, or was scared of
me or something. It was ata summer camp I went to one year
with Helen Rowley and Franny Howard.We took a cottage at the camp,
the three of us putting all ourvacation money together to pay the rent and
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have enough for food for the twoweeks and everything. It was a lovely
cottage overlooking the lovely bay at thecamp, and the three guys were in
another cottage just back of us,Clem I mean, and his friends.
Clem talked to Helen one night whileshe was hanging washing, and then one
of Clem's friends I forget's name,dropped over later and talked to all of
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us and asked us to come andbe sociable with our neighbors, and we
all went. That was when Imet Clem, when we all went over
to their place, and he spoketo me in that funny way. Hello,
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Love seems to me. I hadto remind her to clean up her
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different view of our love story,an inside version from the young lady in
question. Hello Mary. We talkedon their porch for hours and hours that
night, and Clem's friends was reallyfunny, telling jokes and asking crazy questions.
Clem was very nice to me andtalk to me a lot more than
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you talked to Helen or Franni,and we had a lovely time. The
next day, Clem took me tothe beach and out to launch at the
hotel, and then out in arow boat he rented for the afternoon,
and then to the hotel again forsupper. That night, we got cushions
and a rug and went and saton the bluffs a little ways below the
front of our cottage and looked downat the bay and the boats that were
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always there. It was a lovelyevening and time was very nice. I
can remember almost everything he said.How old are you Mary? Yes,
I could, but I think i'dbe wrong. Try. Oh, I'm
sure i'd be wrong. Go on, Yes, twenty two twenty two?
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Am I right? Yes? Oh, I spoiled it. I had to
go and guess it the first time. Did you want me to think you
were older? No? Younger?No? Well then I guess. I
just didn't want you to guess right, that's all. It's no fun when
somebody guess is right. I know. Well, I was going to say
twenty three. I almost said twentythree? Did you? You're very,
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very beautiful? Mary? Oh?He is so browns? How did you
get so much son in only twodays? Oh? That isn't your son,
of course not. I forgot.Uh. What's the Thomas for Thomasino?
That's your real name? Is Thomas? Is my real name? Now?
Thomasino is my grandfather's name at home? Were you born here? Oh?
Yes? So why wasn't I luckyenough to meet you back in this
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city? Well, there's a lotof people in our town, A lot
of girls. I bet you knowa lot of girls back in town twenty
none at all like you? Isthat your GM? Mary? Yes?
Are you all y? Yes?Okay? Helen and Frannie are always worrying
about me, just like mom athome. How many in your family?
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A lot? How many? Seven? That's a big family. I'll say
you should hear them. Brothers,sisters, five brothers, one sister,
so noisy your sister, all ofthem? Do they tease you much?
George? George does? And Tinais your sister older or younger? Oh?
Younger. I'm the oldest of allof them, are you? I
would have thought you were the youngestme. Are you kidding? I don't
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know why I would have not that. Oh it's lovely out here. Oh
that moon. When I came outon the porch this morning, real early,
the moon was still out. Wasn'tWhat were you doing up at that
hour after such a late night?Couldn't you sleep? Not really? Just
still getting used to being in astrange place, I guess, and meeting
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you and your nice friends last nightand everything. I was too excited to
sleep a real And suddenly there wasthe moon this morning, same old moon.
Oh, please, clem, pleasedon't Mary. You shouldn't do that.
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Why not. I don't know you. I don't know how you hardly
at all. Oh, you shouldn'tdo that. I'm twenty five years old,
born in Winetka, went to schoolin Winetka, in Chicago and the
University of oh A brother and twosisters working advertising, unmarried, unattached,
unhappy, and I think here kissedme again, Clem. No, doesn't
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it feel good when I hold youlike this? Yes, you were bad.
Clem wasn't really bad. But aftera few days he started to look
at me more and more in thatfunny way he looked at me. When
we were first introduced. I seenother men look at me that way,
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and I never liked it, Butwhen Clem looked at me that way,
it seemed alright. Because Clim wassuch a fine person. He took me
everywheres on the island, and atthe end of a week there wasn't any
place left. We didn't go.We just lay on the beach after that,
and went to the hotel for lunchand sat out on the bluffs at
night after dancing. Clam told mehe loved me one night and asked me
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if I loved him, and Icouldn't tell him if I did or not
because I didn't know. And whenI told Helen and Franny that Clym said
he loved me, they asked mehow I felt, and I couldn't tell
them either one way or the other. I just didn't know. Summertime fools
a girl about love sometimes. Thesecond to last night at the camp,
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we went down to the wharf andsat at the end and dropped lighted matches
in the water below us. Thatmust be a radio on one of the
boats out there. It's lovely.Why don't we dance? Dance? You
mean you're on the wharf. Whynot come on up on our feet?
Claim the matches in your cigarette?To give me your hands. The whole
package went in the water. Haveyou got any more? It doesn't matter.
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Just let me hold you. There. No crowding on this desk for
Oh, it's uh. Let's wrapon these planks. Pick up your feet,
Clam, I can't, of courseyou can. Oh, oh,
I'm sorry. Die. Don't youknow that step? No? No,
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I look down watch my feet.I don't know that one. It's the
one I told you last night.But I can't. It's hard to hear
the music now, isn't it.Please Clam, let's stop. Let's just
sit all right. Give me yourhand when I get down. Watch yourself
hang on, ah there, whatare you doing? Your wonderful hair?
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It feels like like so soft?Oh you it's just a hair. No,
no, it isn't careful. I'mall right, you'll fall if that's
worse, ol glim glehn. Weall saw it's not a chance. Here,
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take hold of my hand, ifwe all had to get all right.
Oh it's a beautiful hand. Ohit's awful dirty these flanks. You
don't wear any jewelry at all?Do you? No rings, no bracelets,
not even a watch. Well Ido have a watch, of course
you've seen it. But I've beenleaving in at the college lately because you
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know, going to beat you everyday and taking it on and off.
I didn't want to lose it.But nothing else except that little gold cross
around your neck. Oh I alwayswear that. That's hardly something I could
lose with all this hair. Besides, that's different. It's that what I
think of is jewelry. It's it'sit's there because you're a good Catholic.
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Of course, what is it?They say? Devoted, devout both,
I guess. Anyways, it's notlike wearing rings and bracelets and all that.
A ring would look look wonderful onthis finger. Clam. You shouldn't
say that. You shouldn't say thatabout a ring. You shouldn't ever say
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things like that unless you mean it. No, yes, I do,
clam Please would you marry me ifI asked you to? Oh no,
Clem, you mustn't say that.I'm no. It don't seem right when
when when that's not what you want? That's not what you want, Clem,
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I want you. Yes, that'snot the same Mary, No,
Clem, all right, I wishI had a cigarette. I stayed over
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at the camp and extra day.I had an extra day owing from a
day work last Christmas, and wentback to the city with Clem and his
friends. It was a lovely tripon the boat, and Clem made me
promise to let him take me outthe next night. He had a car,
but it was being fixed while hewas on his holiday. He wanted
to take me home in a taxifrom the boat, but I didn't want
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him to. I didn't want himto come out before I could tell about
him to Mom and Papa. WhenI told him, Mamma was happy,
but Papa was angry because he saidhe always had to look at somebody before
I went out with him. AndI was glad. I didn't say too
much like the Clem said he lovedme, or that he wanted to marry
me. The next night, Clyncame around for me about eight. I
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had on my favorite pants, suit, just cleaned, and we went dancing,
but Clem said it was too crowdedand he was tired, so we
went to a drive in for somecoffee. When he took me home,
he said something about calling me andwe'd go dancing someplace where it wasn't so
crowded, But I didn't hear fromhim again. Ever. Maybe it would
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have been different if I'd said yesto him, either when we were up
at the island or when he askedme to go to his apartment back here
in town. But he knew Icouldn't say yes to him. He knew
that very well, so must havebeen something else. I was five or
six years ago, But every summersince then, when I've gone to a
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camp and met other nice people,I think of Clyn. Even last year
after I was married, when Ricoand me had the very same cottage as
Helen Franny and Me had that summeri met Clyn, I thought of him.
I really think of him quite alot. That funny way he looked
at me when we were first introduced. Rico never looks at me that way.
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of sometime every summer time, inwhich you are going to hear what really
happened at the end of our lovestory? Aversion from the young man in
question. Hello, Mary. Shewas one of the most beautiful women I've
ever known. She wasn't a woman, really a girl, a beautiful animal,
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a wonderful gesture of nature. Shewas Italian American born, and we
met at a summer place, oneof those island resorts I went to one
year with mcfrederi's and Holmes when Iwas in the Chicago office. I only
knew her a little more than twoweeks, But sometime every summer since then,
I've thought of her. At first, of course, I thought I
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was in love with her. Atone point I even considered marrying her.
Whatever it was, I wanted her, and it was like a fever.
It wasn't normal. It was veryfoolish and untidy, and I went about
it like a schoolboy. I rememberhearing Mac and Charlie talking about it one
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night. They were out on theporch and hadn't heard me come in the
back door. He says he's inlove with him. That mean any of
a dozen things, sure, butnot the way he says it. I
don't know why he says it atall. He keeps saying if that's what
confuses me, he keeps insisting onit. It's just not like Waldron.
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She is beautiful, mic I'll giveyou that, sure, no question,
but hardly Waldron's type. What doyou mean by that, well, an
elevator operator, maybe only a yearof high school, maybe not even that.
If you say poor, but honest, I'll leave this conversation. Okay,
okay, But you know what Imean. At least you know Waldron
superficially. He isn't a Catholic,I know that much, man. But
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she is, that's for sure.She wears that little cross on her neck
chain with great pride, always touchingit. I don't know what is it
they say about summer romances. Couldn'ttell you, no, you could make
it up. I guess for allit matters. Pretty obvious example with Waldron,
if you ask me, I wastoo annoyed to walk in conversation,
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and I suppose I didn't particularly wantthem to know I'd been listening. Nobody
likes that kind of thing. Thatwas the night I asked her to marry
me. She refused, of course, and was very embarrassed with my asking.
I must have sounded pretty hollow,now that I think back on it,
I felt something big and important insideme. I made a mistake about
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it. It was simply a caseof not being aware of that nice difference
between love and desire. But sheknew. She knew all along. She
was a thrilling kind of a girlto be with. When she wasn't in
her bathing suit, she wore brightblouses and slacks. A lot of women
must have hated her for her loveliness. I think I hated her a little
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myself. She wasn't mine. Whenwe went back to the city, we
took the late evening boat and watchingthe moonlight on the lake from the observation
deck helped us stretch out the lastfew hours of the holiday. Are you
making your wish on a clam onone on our lovely moon? Of course,
you've been so quiet looking up atit out there. I thought maybe
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you was making a wish. Iwas looking at the stars, wishing on
one of them. No, thinkingabout you and me in the last two
weeks. That's nice. It's sonice to stand here like this with your
arm around me. And if you'renot going to wish on the moon,
then I will. What did youwish for? Oh? You, You
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can't ever tell anybody what you wishfor. If you tell about it's liable
not to come true. It justhas to be a secret between me and
the moon. But you can tellme what it was you was thinking about
the last two weeks, because thoughtsaren't the same as wishes mine are.
It was a lovely holiday, wasn'tit. It was more than nice for
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me anyway? It was another world? Is that what you was thinking about
just now? Partly? But Idon't think I should tell you about the
rest? Why not? It mightspoil your wish. You better not do
that. When we got back tothe city. She wanted to go home
alone, refusing to let me takeher in a taxi, so I got
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her address and made a date tocall for her the following night. It
was an address in the far eastside of town, and when I drove
out of my car the next night, I had trouble finding it. It
was a narrow, two story housebetween a bakery and a metal workshop.
It was still daylight, no lightson, and you wouldn't have thought anybody
lived there. I went loudly upthe steps of the low porch to the
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door, trying to trample down withmy feet. The thoughts that were running
through my head, how are yougood evening? I is you, mister
WALDERN yes, is I'm George.We saw your car pull up. My
sister just yelled down that she'd onlybe a minute. Come on in,
thank you. Uh now, Georgiaturn that o are you are you?
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Mister? Sit down, mister Walder, excuse us. The supper dishes that
Mama took the children to the earlymovie show. I've seen the picture.
It's loud hut. Nice to seeyou, mister Walderer. I don't think
she'll be so long. Gurs,of course, it's perfectly all right,
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lots of time. Who are business? Are you? And mister Waldron?
Business? Oh? I was anadvertising agency. I'm a grocery business myself.
You happen to notice my store inthe next block next door? No?
No, that's always she and skiI'm down the next block. No
I didn't notice it. No,what do you do in the advertising business,
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mister Waldron? Billboards and all likethat? Yes, yes, I
like that. Uh huh business good? Oh yeah, it's pretty good.
What are you doing good too?Oh yeah, oh yes she is?
Oh God, up to go places? She she smelled good this time.
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She was wearing a shiny knit pantssuit that had been worn too often and
was too small for her. Shehad her long hair pulled up into a
sort of tight braid wound around herhead, and somehow she didn't seem to
be the same girl I'd fallen inlove with two weeks earlier. She was
still beautiful, very much so,but she looked a little tacky, and
there was a feeling of fun easinessabout her. We went dancing and it
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wasn't any good. It wasn't thesame as it had been at the open
air for the day on the island. You remember last night, Clem,
when I wished on the moon.Of course I remember. Well, guess
what now I can tell you whatI wished, But didn't you say a
wish might not come true if youtold somebody about it. It's all right
now, because it did come true. It did. Oh, yes,
you see, last night on theboat, I didn't think I was ever
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going to see you again, andthat's what I wished for, that I
would see you. And here youare. Oh, yes, here I
am. I'm stepping all over toyou. I'm so sorry. No,
don't be please, It was meas much as you. We're both pretty
tired. I guess, first dayback at our jobs hard to get used
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to the same old routine again.How to go? If you, Clem,
didn't it all feel like an awfulletdown? Oh, it certainly did,
all that work piled up on mydesk, but at least I could
sit down to it. You you'vebeen on your feet all hands. I'll
say. They're having some kind ofend of summer sale at the store,
and I got stuck with an elevatorthat had a busted seat. You know,
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those little seats that fold out forthe operator. To perch on.
You miss not having it, Believeme, when you're real busy on a
salesdoce course you do fight no oneabout that. I never would have suggested
we go dancing. Why not?Well, after you've been on your feet
all day running an elevator with noplace to striving, and also fat your
pop It calls it, you know, but I don't mind it. Usually
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you get to see all different kindsof people. You wonder where they can
I'm from, what they're gonna buy, how they can afford it. It's
softly crowded, isn't there. I'llsay it's as bad as a full elevator.
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Would you like to go? Whydon't we? Why don't we drive
over to my apartment and sit outon the balcony. I've got a marvelous
view of these no clam You knowI can't do that, not yet.
Then why don't we go someplace quietand have a coffee? All right?
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I realized I'd become so used tobeing alone with her during those two weeks
on the island that now I couldn'tstand sharing her with other people. We
ended up sitting in my car anda drive in halfway back to her house,
But even there we weren't able tobe by ourselves. The car hop
who served us turned out to bea friend of hers. So when did
you get home? Then? Justlast night? Today was my first day
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back at work. So how isthe island this year? Did you have
a good time? I'll say wehad a lovely time. Is that where
you met this one? It was, as a matter of fact, this
is Clem Waldron Peg, but ClemPeggy Onnea, Hello Peggy, Hi Clem.
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About time we got introduced with ustwo talking across you like this all
the time. Well, I'd betterhustle some more trays. I see some
lights on? Can I hot upyour coffee for you? No more for
me? Thanks Peg, cleam,just to check? Please you want the
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bad news? You got the badnews and that's for you. Please keep
the change. Well, hanks alot. That's the best keepers I've had
all night. Be right there?All finished? Shall I take the tray?
Yes, I'll finished. Thanks mypleasure and thank you, good night
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Peg, good night. Han.Don't do anything I wouldn't do see it
matth on Sunday. I'm sorry,Clam. She means, well, of
course she does. I really amsorry, though none of it was the
same, none of it was anygood. I took her home and told
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her i'd call her, and droveback to my apartment the long way.
I got word that I was tobe transferred East a couple of days later,
and I didn't call her. Icouldn't. It's very difficult for a
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Janet Waldo, and Ronald Staley.The music for Sears Radio Theater was
composed and conducted by Nelson Riddle,Art Gilmore speaking. The Elliot Lewis production
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a heart healthy diet. We're fightingfor your life. Tomorrow Sears Radio Thea
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