what's in a name? (argument for nothing)
TheSecretGoldfish (lime6@rocketmail.com)
Sun, 26 Apr 1998 11:38:38 -0700 (PDT)
"A pretty girl named Phoebe liked to line up all her
classmates on the playground and go down the line
saying, "You're my first best friend, you're my
second best friend," and so on. I was always her
two-hundredth best friend, dead last, though I had
gone out of my way to be friendly with her. One day,
I presented her with a valuable African coin from my
collection, and she glanced at it and shuddered. "I
don't want that. You touched it," she said. ""If I
accepted, I'd be know forever after as a girl who
took money off a leper. No man would ever touch me.
I'd be obliged to leave Sioux Falls and go to
Minneapolis and lead the lonely life of a cashier in
a cafeteria and live in a room over a drugstore and
spend my evenings reading movie magazines and I'd
become a withered spinster in a print dress smelling
of lilac talcum, with my big watery eyes behind my
pop-bottle glasses, taking vacation tours of the
Black Hills on a bus."
from _Buddy the Leper_ by Garrison Keillor
movie magazines?
paul.
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