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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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41. in my mind, with some sort of unpardonable crime. To be ill, denoted some ignorance of the laws pertaining to the universe. It is wisest not to remember that a godly measure of life closely embraces pain. It is best not to come in contact with it or perceive it; and most comfortable of all to try to forget all about it if one only may. So the years that were childhood flowed unconcernedly into adolescence, and adolescence mingled unobservedly with high-school days. In the break between the grades and high school I was kept out of school a year to learn to manage housekeeping responsibilities, and - as I remember - I did completely take them over. At this time too, I pieced a quilt which had been kept intact in the "hope chest" and which now is in use on one of my guest-room beds and around whose color and motif the room has been decorated and furnished. Years then, were filled with family duties; school activities and homework; reading; play and games on soft summer evenings with swallows and bats circling about in the sky overhead; winter evenings, popcorn and apples,
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41. in my mind, with some sort of unpardonable crime. To be ill, denoted some ignorance of the laws pertaining to the universe. It is wisest not to remember that a godly measure of life closely embraces pain. It is best not to come in contact with it or perceive it; and most comfortable of all to try to forget all about it if one only may. So the years that were childhood flowed unconcernedly into adolescence, and adolescence mingled unobservedly with high-school days. In the break between the grades and high school I was kept out of school a year to learn to manage housekeeping responsibilities, and - as I remember - I did completely take them over. At this time too, I pieced a quilt which had been kept intact in the "hope chest" and which now is in use on one of my guest-room beds and around whose color and motif the room has been decorated and furnished. Years then, were filled with family duties; school activities and homework; reading; play and games on soft summer evenings with swallows and bats circling about in the sky overhead; winter evenings, popcorn and apples,
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