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Chapter 33 I Learn to Cope Let's go on a while with the letters. I wrote on the 25th. Mostly it was a love letter. I still assuming she would go to her sister's and then spend a few days with me before we went back to Valpo. I really wish it had turned out that way since the way it did go I learned several things about myself I'd rather not have known. I tell her that my dad and I are going car shopping the next day. I wrote again the next day, the 27th. I had gotten her letter of the 23rd ...

Chapter 32 A Tentative Restart Isn’t it interesting how we both remember the phone call? The details differ, but the main points are there in both recollections. When I hung up  I just stood in the phone booth staring at the phone for at least ten minutes. I only left then because another student wanted to use the it. I walked back to my room, stretched out on my bed, and looked at the cracks in the ceiling. In my mind I replayed the conversation over and over. A hundred times I w...

#53 Poems and Phones I spent the last few days trying to get my act together. I'm trying to find out how and why Donna and I fell in love and got married. In looking back over what I've written I'm not sure I'm doing that. Still, I think there is something here worth going on about. As sometimes happens, while I'm thinking about one writing problem I get ideas for another piece of writing all together. I'm including this poem here because it came to me over the weekend. It really belongs back...

 Chapter 30 Crisis Coming I vividly remember that day, July 23, 1962. I sat in my chair for maybe an hour reading and rereading that letter. Then I got up, dropped the letter on my desk and walked to the registrar to withdraw from Kent. I next called my parents to tell them I wasn't going to stay at Kent. Dad couldn't come to pick me up until the next day so I went back to my room and read the letter another ten or twelve times. I was cold and numb and very very scared. I didn't have a clue ...

Chapter 29  We Go Thud (Note I wrote a lot of this before reading what Donna wrote so some will be repetitious, but it does show the view from the other side.). And on we go. I wrote a rather nice love letter on the 16th. I do start by saying I've only gotten two letters from her in the last 12 days. I ask if she is mad at me and if she is for her to please tell me why. I tell her I miss her so much it hurts and recall a wedding she attended last year where the minister said "Pick ...