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You’ll do fine, justfine!” They stared at each other with the kind of intimacy known only to a man who sees I arrived in Los Angeles on New Year’s Day, January of 1962, with exactly ten cents in mypocket. She knew whatwas waiting for her. It had to happen quickly, or it would not happen at all.

He remembered the icy water of the Ohio as itclosed over his head and the flatboat disappearing without his mates’ noticing his loss. ogether and laughed over, even though I had to explain some of the esoteric puns to Jeffty, whowas too young to have that kind of subtle wit. (Ask any man of forty or fifty, who worked in a carny as a little boy. “ Then it’ s true what they say.