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''The long-needed modern guide
to the understanding of girls growing up.''
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Quote: '''The most frank and objective
book currently available.' LibraryJournal. ''
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Oh, that.
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''The years of puberty and early womanhood
are difficult, even frightening, for many girls.
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''This is the time they most need
objective, factual information...
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and sympathetic advice about
their physical and emotional changes.''
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You know, we don't have enough for two tables.
There's only seven of us.
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- That's impossible.
- Tom's not here yet.
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Is he coming?
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Sure. He is coming, isn't he?
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- You didn't call him?
- I thought there were eight of us.
He would have been the ninth.
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- You told me that he -
- Well,just call him up.
I'm sure he isn't doing anything else.
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Well, surely there's - there's someone else
in New York who can play bridge...
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other than Tom Townsend.
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I mean, you know, seven can play.
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What have you got against Tom?
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Just one thing -
He's not - not a good person.
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- Oh, what nonsense.
- Oh, all right. Go ahead.
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Call him if you want.
I don't care.
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Actually, I don't think Tom approves of bridge,
but we should ask him anyway.
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Well, have a seat.
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Then just say you pass.
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I pass.
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I couldn't believe you were actually going to
play bridge. It's such a cliche of bourgeois life.
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That's exactly why I play.
I don't enjoy it one bit.
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I intended to go
and got as far as the door.
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- What happened?
- My mother got upset.
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She said that she couldn't face
being alone on Christmas Eve...
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and that it was really important
that the family be together then.
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My brother never comes home
at Christmas anymore.
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So, anyway, I just stayed and had a traditional
Christmas with Channel 1 1 's traditional yule log.
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Oh, yeah. I think I've seen that.
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Noon on Christmas Day, every other year,
we go to my father's place.
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I was a bit reluctant to go this year, actually,
because I hadn't been able to get in touch
with my father all week.
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But my mother insisted.
It was a real nightmare.
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First, the doorman at my father's building
wouldn't let me up.