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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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Only once during these high-school years do I recall having slowed down - and that once was toward the end of the junior year. At that time I continued to mope about the house, and at every opportunity before and after meals lay down to rest on the Davenport. Mother noticed my lassitude - which was a sharp contrast to my usually buoyant spirits, crisp movements and high-life. She concluded something was out of line, so one afternoon after school she carried me off to the small-village family physician. He found a temperature of 101 degrees and a respiratory infection which he diagnosed as pneumonia "which probably would develop into quick consumption if it were not taken care of". He suggested keeping me in bed. A bed, therefore, was moved downstairs and set up in one of the front rooms and I was comfortably installed for two weeks. All the impressions I still retain of these fourteen days of enforced rest are unrelated and
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Only once during these high-school years do I recall having slowed down - and that once was toward the end of the junior year. At that time I continued to mope about the house, and at every opportunity before and after meals lay down to rest on the Davenport. Mother noticed my lassitude - which was a sharp contrast to my usually buoyant spirits, crisp movements and high-life. She concluded something was out of line, so one afternoon after school she carried me off to the small-village family physician. He found a temperature of 101 degrees and a respiratory infection which he diagnosed as pneumonia "which probably would develop into quick consumption if it were not taken care of". He suggested keeping me in bed. A bed, therefore, was moved downstairs and set up in one of the front rooms and I was comfortably installed for two weeks. All the impressions I still retain of these fourteen days of enforced rest are unrelated and
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