DADDY-LONG-LEGS (24)

DADDY-LONG-LEGS (24)


    The unusual artistic ability which I exhibit  was developed at an early age through drawing chalk pictures of Mrs. Lippett on the woodshed door.

    I hope that I don't hurt your feeling when I criticize the home of my youth ? But you have the upper hand, you know, for it become too impatinent, you can always stop payment on your checks. That isn't a very polite thing to say ー but youcan't expect me to have any manners ; a founding asylum isn't a young ladies' finishing school.

    You know, Daddy, it isn't the work that is going to be hard in college. It's the play. Half the time I don't know what the girls are talking about ; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language. It's a miserable feeling. I've had it all my life. At the high school the girls would stand in groups and just look at me.  I was queer and different and averybody knew it. I could feel " John Grier Home " written on my face.




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