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Teen-Age Marshall Plan. We
teen-agers never had a place
of our own, although we al
ways wanted one. Finally a
bunch of us got together and
talked to various civic
groups. One of them offered
us a sort of Marshall Plan:
they'd give us the money if
we'd do the work.
So we scouted around and
found an old building. It was in awful shape, but all the kids painted, sanded, and
washed like mad, and pretty soon we had something to be proud of. I think doing
the hard work (and it was fun doing it) made us appreciate the place even more.
Now, after school and on week ends we have somewhere to go there's ping
pong, dancing, parties, and everything and we did it all ourselves! Sharon
Enloe (age 17), Jefferson City, Mo.
Two Views of a Stranger. Driving home in a heavy snowfall last Winter, I became
angered at a motorist behind me who kept honking his horn. The ruts were deep
and hazardous, but I finally let him pass, muttering, "Hope he gets stuck."
Two miles farther on, he did. As I passed him I thought, "Serves him right."
Later, as I turned off the highway onto a country road, I also got stuck. I was
there half an hour before anyone offered aid. Who was my benefactor? You
guessed it, the same man. He stopped, gave me a push, then drove on, never
knowing that I'd harbored ill feeling for him only a short time before.
Cleveland S. Baker, Alexandria, Va.
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my words and from this photograph a
familiar vision.
It is not truly I whom he dreams. It
is his own dream and he loves it.
I might have replied in anger and
reproach. I might have told him truly
of myself to destroy the marble and
make it flesh.
I choose rather to remain silent, to
leave his words untouched and to ac
cept them not for myself but as he
intended them, a peculiar tribute.
Many who know me face to face do
not love me. Many are indifferent.
From some I elicit dislike. My feet rest
on no pinnacle of perfection, my head
is not illuminated by the stars.
But if you must love me a little,
stranger, love me. If I have come to fill
a quiet need in a corner of your heart,
I will do so.
For I understand, too, that when love
walks away, it leaves a long shadow.
Emptiness.
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. . . the stranger who has never seen
my face, never heard my voice, never
discovered my sanctuary, writes to me:
"I love you. Each man must have one
woman in his life. You are mine."
On this page each week, I bestow the
weakness and strength of myself on all,
not on one. I had not asked to be loved
by a stranger except in my own way.
He chooses to love me in his. That's
why my first reaction to his letter was
indignation for presuming on my desire
for universality and creating a privacy
in which he and I are alone together.
But my second reaction is that of
tolerance. The painter gives all who
view the lifeblood of his canvas the
right to take it for their own. The writer
is no exception. I can neither grant nor
deny the stranger's privilege of love,
regardless of its form.
The man who wrote to me is lonely.
He lives apart from the world. He has
never seen mine. He has created from
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