Bob was away, cause he always had someone to take care of the cat and water the plants.

She was very mad because she had wasted the money for the phone call. It was long distance.

His father is really funny He's a manufacturer

Once the family took him to the ballet. He turned to them afterwards and said, "What do you think these people do during the day?"

He couldn't imagine anyone spending their time dancing.

Bob never worked for the family business. His mother had an independent income and his father was rich. Whenever he needed money they would send him some.

He worked in public relations.

He's 40 now but he's really kept himself. He takes vitamins, wears ear plugs, eye covers at night, takes special pills for his nails.

He was good for me, but I wasn't after his money Some of his friends used to say that. Once when I moved out of the apartment to a rooming house, because we quarreled, one of those bitchy queens that was a friend of ours said I only stayed with Bob because of his apartment, but it just isn't so. I thought Basil was a golddigger though. I just felt it wouldn't last

We had been together five years. Now we were still in the same apartment but it was over I was sleeping with other people, he was.

That was when he met Basil. "Now he's got another colored boy" I said to myself

He used to tell me about Basil but it was just like the girls. He didn't want me to meet him. He was afraid of hurting my feelings.

And he still wanted me.

Once we met in his apartment, I had moved out by then but I still had things in the apartment. And we made out and he said "This is mad ness. So the next time he wanted to

make out. I said to him "The last time you said 'this is madness' and if it's madness we don't have to do it."

After that he was very cold to me and we didn't really see each other any more. Last birthday card I got from him was a week late.

I heard that he and Basil broke off after a few months. Basil never lived with him.

I heard they broke up at the Pines, that Basil left crying.

But he didn't know the good things about Bob that I know

PACO

So I left Bob and moved into a rooming house. I've lived in rooming houses and hotels since. I like it that way If I had an apartment I'd have to buy furniture. I never had enough money for furniture. Bob offered me his Danish Modern when we split because he was going to get a whole new set of furniture but I didn't have any place to put it.

There was this I knew named queen Sonny And she had an apartment. which was always noisy and jumping. Something was always going on. Beds all around the place, even in the kitchen.

that's

First time I met Paco short for Pablo he's Puerto Rican

was at a party and he was Sonny's boy then. Next time was when I'd split with Bob. Everyone knew about it.

I noticed Paco was making up to me. It was getting later and later and he wasn't leaving and he was sitting on the arm of my chair and lighting cigarettes for me I was smoking then and Sonny told me, "It's all right, Paco and I are just friends now It turned out they had split because Sonny is such a whore. He was doing people in the bathroom right in front of Paco's nose and Paco's Spanish and they don't like that. It offends their pride.

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And right off I told Paco "Look

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