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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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The being "I am a STOMACH" likely dates back to years long ago and ancestors prior to my existence. Perhaps even many years were interposed before the birth of girl-baby a long, lean mistake of restive tendencies -- which is I. The mistake grew somewhat slowly at first. However given due time it passed through the normal stages of child development -- teething, creeping, chatting, toddling and walking. Very soon after assuming the correct position of mankind it was tearing about at break neck speed. A regular tom-boy at the age of four, it alreading was climbing skyward, high in our own and neighboring trees and this in a state which is noted for magnificent grooves and shade trees. A live curiousity and desire to inspect the nests of the birds and an incessant energy seemed to be the motivating impulses. I can readily understand the thrill of climbing trees to dizzying heights and the
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The being "I am a STOMACH" likely dates back to years long ago and ancestors prior to my existence. Perhaps even many years were interposed before the birth of girl-baby a long, lean mistake of restive tendencies -- which is I. The mistake grew somewhat slowly at first. However given due time it passed through the normal stages of child development -- teething, creeping, chatting, toddling and walking. Very soon after assuming the correct position of mankind it was tearing about at break neck speed. A regular tom-boy at the age of four, it alreading was climbing skyward, high in our own and neighboring trees and this in a state which is noted for magnificent grooves and shade trees. A live curiousity and desire to inspect the nests of the birds and an incessant energy seemed to be the motivating impulses. I can readily understand the thrill of climbing trees to dizzying heights and the
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