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- 2974 because she was so damn good-looking, but it always gave me a pain in the ass.
2975 "Swell to see you," I said. I meant it, too. "How are ya, anyway?"
2976 "Absolutely marvelous. Am I late?"
2977 I told her no, but she was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give
2978 a damn, though. All that crap they have in cartoons in the Saturday Evening Post and all,
2979 showing guys on street corners looking sore as hell because their dates are late--that's
2980 bunk. If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
2981 "We better hurry," I said. "The show starts at two-forty." We started going down the
2982 stairs to where the taxis are.
2983 "What are we going to see?" she said.
2984 "I don't know. The Lunts. It's all I could get tickets for."
2985 "The Lunts! Oh, marvelous!" I told you she'd go mad when she heard it was for
2986 the Lunts.
2987 We horsed around a little bit in the cab on the way over to the theater. At first she
2988 didn't want to, because she had her lipstick on and all, but I was being seductive as hell
2989 and she didn't have any alternative. Twice, when the goddam cab stopped short in traffic,
2990 I damn near fell off the seat. Those damn drivers never even look where they're going, I
2991 swear they don't. Then, just to show you how crazy I am, when we were coming out of
2992 this big clinch, I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I
2993 meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am.
2994 "Oh, darling, I love you too," she said. Then, right in the same damn breath, she
2995 said, "Promise me you'll let your hair grow. Crew cuts are getting corny. And your hair's
2996 so lovely."
2997 Lovely my ass.
2998 The show wasn't as bad as some I've seen. It was on the crappy side, though. It
2999 was about five hundred thousand years in the life of this one old couple. It starts out when
3000 they're young and all, and the girl's parents don't want her to marry the boy, but she
3001 marries him anyway. Then they keep getting older and older. The husband goes to war,
3002 and the wife has this brother that's a drunkard. I couldn't get very interested. I mean I
3003 didn't care too much when anybody in the family died or anything. They were all just a
3004 bunch of actors. The husband and wife were a pretty nice old couple--very witty and all--
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