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2 haven't missed New York one winter, except a few dear friends I left behind. At the same time, I am hungry for a visit there.

We are suddenly having a rather enchanting springtime. This seems to be a nature-loving neighborhood-

it is lovely and I love it - so we have lots of daffodils and tulips and even magnolia trees in bloom. Also lots of birds and squirrels.

It would be so wonderful to see both of you again. Can't you arrange a visit? I can cook better than I thought

I could, which isn't saying a lot!

Jack - as for Algren and Shag Donohue, I am ecstatic at the thought of never seeing either again. What an unmanly,

loathsome twosome - God, they truly deserved each other. It only shows how low an ebb my life was at, that I ever sweat blood to type that