Central Commercial High School - Hour Glass Yearbook (New York, NY)

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We arrtxed at the PWFIV xx here xxe xx ere expected I tntrodttced htm to exerxbodx took our coats off and then s1t doxxn After 1 xx htle somebodx turned on the phonograph and the bovs ln1tttrtllxl asked the qtrls to dance As xou must haxe guessed bv noxx I xx as left to dance xxtth mxself Out of sheer exasperatton I xx ent ox er to htm and asked htm to dance As xxe xxere danctng I cattttouslv approached the sttbtect of xx hx he hadnt asked me He replted much to my horror that tf a qtrl re tllv xx tshed to d ance she must ask htm As I sat there all ex entng I trted to hgure htm out He lust sat there txxtddltnq hts toothptck xx htle I sat txxtddlxng mx thumbs As the ex entng xx ore on I asked htm to take me home ftgttrtng that gotng to sleep xxould be pref erable to lust sttttng and stattng tnto sp ace I left htm at mv door 1nd xx ent tnstde I fell asleep not long after and had a terrtble ntghtm1re of betnq stabbed by d1nctng toothptcks When I axxoke the next d1x tt took me qutte some ttme before I returned to santtv I then sxx ore nex er to stccept another bltnd d tte Noxx th1t yott haxe heard mv story of 1 bltnd date xx ottld vott dare to go on one? IGHT Nltght falls oxer tts ltlxe a blanket brtnqtng xxtth tt enough darkness to cox er all the ltes and decett th1t 1re concealed from the ltght of day The scene ts a cabaret xx here there ts danctng and gatetv but seated tn 1 corner are txxo men htdden from the xxatchful eve of the laxx Near them a battered old ptano statned xxtth ctqarette burns and vears of abuse plaxs loudly enough to droxxn out thetr plotttnq xotces Ntght c1n hear of the planntnq of someone s death but ts helpless to prex ent tt For though ntqht can hear tt cannot spealx It mttst keep all tts secrets tn the sxx ollen ptt of tts empttness The scene changes In mother part of the cttx an ambulctnce speeds through the blackened streets Ntght looks on xxtth a puzzled expresston I thts to be the begtnntng of 1 rtexx ltfe or the end of an old one7 Its questton ts soon ansxx ered bv the loud xx atltng of a nexx born baby For noxx ntght has xxttnessed tts h tppx endtng and ts readv to step astde 1nd make xx 1x for a nexx av Dorothx Berlstnt and ean Qster 23 r ' v c v v v . I. ' A ' , . ,' . 2 J . . L , ' N. , ' . t I . 2 1' K 5 . . . 2 ' a . ' : t , Q 1 5. L .I f ' ' A 2 . . . c ' . , A' I I K x r C K o I .' c I. I 4 . I I I . . I I c ' 2 . I C I , 1 C ' I , -Leatrtce Denoxvttz K v - , v4 A L- , I 7 c c . . . . t , ' k 5 I I 1 5 , . , .' C , . , . , ' B. ,' A. ' ' S C I . - 1 V v I 4 vi y I ' , a if K . Q A ' , J . ' 'C 1' ' - V C I

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