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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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52. the roots, which incidentally were missed, continue to grow up from the sides in ugly projections. These rough growths are quite unaesthetic and objectionable. If the physician had only made a clean job of it! So years later, I tried once more to patch up the erstwhile unfortunate error, and submitted to another scraping of the toe on a local anaesthetic. But even this, though hard on the nerves, did not repair the damage, and the irregular bits of nail continue to develop. After graduation from high-school I matriculated at the university. During the summer months of vacation the rush captain of several of the sororities invited me to their rush-week parties. But being rather disinterested, I characteristically thanked the girls and said, although I felt singularly honoured to be asked it was not my intention to be in Iowa City at the time specified but would arrive just in time for registration. However, I did accept the invitation of one of the girls for a last night party on the Saturday evening before school officially opened. It seemed apparent from the first that sorority life with its confusion and goose-step was not for me. I could not conform, I could be no joiner,
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52. the roots, which incidentally were missed, continue to grow up from the sides in ugly projections. These rough growths are quite unaesthetic and objectionable. If the physician had only made a clean job of it! So years later, I tried once more to patch up the erstwhile unfortunate error, and submitted to another scraping of the toe on a local anaesthetic. But even this, though hard on the nerves, did not repair the damage, and the irregular bits of nail continue to develop. After graduation from high-school I matriculated at the university. During the summer months of vacation the rush captain of several of the sororities invited me to their rush-week parties. But being rather disinterested, I characteristically thanked the girls and said, although I felt singularly honoured to be asked it was not my intention to be in Iowa City at the time specified but would arrive just in time for registration. However, I did accept the invitation of one of the girls for a last night party on the Saturday evening before school officially opened. It seemed apparent from the first that sorority life with its confusion and goose-step was not for me. I could not conform, I could be no joiner,
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