Wednesday June 5th, 1935 I’m so disappointed. My pictures are just one big mess. The serious one is fair but I only have 11 of that. The other one is so terrible I hate to give it to anyone. The smile is one sided, my eyes crinkled up, and I don’t look a bit like…
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Zosh – In Loving Memory
For the first time today Babu talked of Zosh’s passing. Zosh is Sophie’s nickname. You see her written about all over Babu’s journals. She remained friends with Zosh for all the years leading up to her death. Zosh only died a year or two ago. Babu didn’t get out to see her best friend much…
The First Week of June, 1935
What an exciting time. The closing of a chapter. She’s graduating. She has already purchased most of the dresses she needs for her important days, received her ring, her pictures, and she has decided that she wants to go to prom. All that’s left to do is go to class day, get a date for…
Caretaking Haiku Part Two
For the more Kerouac type of Haiku writer. (Not strictly 5-7-5!) She lives in a sauna with cold hands and we all just sweat for her. Gets a weekly flower – We talk about it for seven days. She’s no longer allowed to pick up things off the floor. Still does. When…
Some May Extras!
This one is especially for Nicole and Stef!! Friday, May 24th, 1935 Jacob Stefanik told me my hair “looks lousy” and to make it grow long. Went to the game. Chicopee beat Westfield 6 to 4. “Honey” Polpeck is wonderful but he’s being used too much. Teddy Fidar got hit. I felt so sorry…
The end of May, 1935 Excerpts
Wednesday May 29th, 1935 My graduation pictures will be ready Friday. Tonight I signed up for Bay Path. The secretarial course for two years. Our cousins from Holyoke came for the evening. I want to go to prom. This passage has all short concise sentences. I think it shows a lot of anxiety and other…
Sharing May
I bring the new passages to Babu as she is beginning her daily exercises. Yes! She as PT exercises she still does nearly every day! 98. Amazing. I love her. So I wait and type as she does all kinds of leg lifts and counts them out animatedly in Polish. (Yup, I’m feeling like quite…
The Last Two and Half Weeks of May
While reading the passages from the end of May my heart really got to beating over a big mistake I made. This is not Babu’s Junior year, this is her Senior year! I was starting to get the hints as I was reading about her class ring and pictures, but I’ve done the math and…
Classy, Snappy, and No Dumbbell!
Babu read the new set of passages and remembered a girl in her journal named Jenny and corrected the spelling of her last name. She still has so much of her memory but wont believe it! She even sometimes calls herself a “dumbbell,” which is far from the truth. She remembered that Jenny lived not…
The First and Second Week of May
The passages that start May are exciting and seem to be a little magical. Maybe I’m just being too sentimental or it’s because as Spring is starting in 1935, it’s also begun here! All of the excitement of a school year coming to a close is buzz-buzzing in her passages. They have gotten their class…
Fourth Week of April, 1935 Excerpt
Tuesday, April 30, 1935 Had a very good lesson today. Joe Grdymir came from Worcester. He kept us drilling from 8 to 11. Now, Diary I’m seldom happy. I have an indescribable lump in my chest because I can’t be popular. You’ve heard this over and over again. Why can’t I be? Never mind. I…
Babu and Drobey sitting walking down the street…not even talking.
I’ve gently pushed, and gently pushd again – but I promise, blog, that I have pushed her for the last time! we read about Babu not going to the show and she said: “I guess I didn’t go with him…” And I even joshed her when we read about Teddy’s admonish of her causing Drobey…
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