Peyton Place

1:48:01

And with spring came the promise that
perhaps I had found my place in life.

1:48:07

But part of me would keep escaping...

1:48:09

...and I'd find it running, in memory,
back through the fields of Peyton Place...

1:48:14

...or wandering down streets
now empty of young men.

1:48:19

I got a couple of funny ones.
This is from Ted Carter. He says:

1:48:23

"The food they serve here must have
been warmed over from World War I. "

1:48:29

Remember Fred Combes? He's in
the Navy. He says, "Dear Hyde:

1:48:34

I joined the Navy because I liked the way
they kept their ships neat and tidy.

1:48:40

But I never knew until now
who kept them that way: Me. "

1:48:47

The boys are getting around these days.

1:48:50

I had a V-Mail letter just the other day
from someplace from Norman Page.

1:48:54

- Remember him?
- Sure.

1:48:55

He said he dug a foxhole so deep that
it was just short of desertion.

1:49:02

And then the seasons spun by so fast
they seemed to become one.

1:49:07

The war news was too big to grasp,
and too unhappy to understand.

1:49:12

Selena wrote me often about
Peyton Place, and I treasured her letters.

1:49:18

She always tried to mention
my mother...

1:49:21

...and tell me what people
were saying to each other...

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...or were not saying.

1:49:34

Eventually, I broke the ice
of my intentions...

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...and subscribed to
the Peyton Place Times.

1:49:40

I was hungry for names that meant
something to me.

1:49:43

But among them, unhappily, came the
names of those who were gone forever.