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January 23, 1946
Dear Mother and Daddy,
This hasn't even a very nice week and I've found it almost impossible to study. I can't seem to keep my mind on any of my studies even though I have spent quite a bit of time at the library. As you had anticipated, Bob wrote me a letter telling me that we had better go out with each other for quite some time and broke all the dates he had with me for the future. Of course that upset me quite a bit and I wrote him a letter but I haven't heard anything from him. I'm quite sure that he has dates for both tonight and tomorrow night, but I still can't think I shall never go out with him again; he sort of acted like
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this once before only not quite so drastically. I think maybe he'll be back in about a month. Tonight I went to a basketball game with Ruth and Jane, and Kay and Bill came and sat right in back of us. It was just horrible. There was a sort of jolly-up dance after the game and we were going, but afterwards I just didn't feel like going. But Ruth and Jane made me because they thought I should meet and talk with more boys. Anyway I went and had a wonderful time. I danced with several people including a Dick Lind that knows Bobbie. At the end I danced with a very wonderful boy whom I had admired from afar for quite a long time. He is in the graduate
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school of business and worked for a year in Panama with an oil firm. He holds some kind of track championship and has a scar on his cheek. We had a very interesting talk with him and he walked me home. I may never go out with him, but I was glad to be able to talk with some fairly strange boy, because I didn't think I could, but now I know that I can. It seems so long since I have. Things seem to be a little brighter on the whole. I'm planning to spend all tomorrow at the library and I think I will be able to get quite a bit done. I have a test in both Political Science and Psychology next week; I hope I'll do all right.
Love to all, Mary
