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operators, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Foster, have devoted their
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to have generous citizens help them out. Once, with the
treasury empty and little food left, they found a bushel of
potatoes and cabbage on their porch. Another time a man
handed Foster an envelope and said, "Here's five. I wish it
could have been more." Foster was trying to get a loan and
the money was very welcome especially when he opened
the envelope and found the "five" was $500! Mrs. Margaret
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. . . one of the bitterest drinks that I know is marriage on
the rocks.
My old friend sat beside me and endlessly pleated the folds
of her dress. I could not halt the flow of her words. I would
not, if I could. She was my friend.
"I married too quickly," she said. "I had known him only
three months and he was-being shipped out Just a few
weeks and then he was gone.
"When he came home, we were strangers. We tried. But I
had mistaken desire for understanding and similarity for
sympathy. We were like opposite sides of a coin, welded
together.
"I thought it might be better when the children came. We
both love them, even if we cannot love each other. At last
we faced things squarely. We sat down together and talked
it out Neither of us believes in divorce. Neither of us can
make this marriage work.
"But we have two little girls who need us. They need a
home and two parents. What do you do?"
I swallowed hard. I couldn't answer. .
She did not look me in the face. The tears spilled down
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into her lap and mingled with the pleating of her skirt.
"That was years ago," she said. "We're still together. We
speak. We never quarrel. He goes to the office in the morning
and comes home at night. He's wonderful with the children.
They adore him. Sometimes I think I can't bear the sight of
him another day, knowing that we must live together with
nothing but the chains of our mistakes to hold us.
"But he is no more real to me than he was the day we
were married. I feel nothing for him. Nothing. He is a part of
all my life which I must endure like a disease for which
there is no cure. And, if we were to be divorced, the children
would suffer more than we do. He knows that too."
She attempted a smile. I looked carefully out the window
as she wiped away the tears and rose to leave. As I had
known she. would be, she was remorseful for having disrobed
her agony before me.
"I think it must have been the war years," she said. "Our
generation didn't have much of a chance. We lived to seize
the moment
"Sometimes a moment lasts forever."
And then she closed the door and walked into the night
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