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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

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more I was regurgitating all over the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and so on into Paris. My self-styled morning sickness was obnoxious and tenacious. Ordinarily I am a good sailor, and up to a certain point, the more turbulent the ocean becomes the more exhilarated I become. These stomach ills of mine upon the tail end of a trying summer might easily have been mistaken for "malmere" for it was indistinguishable from the outside.
Paris, being the end of the line in several ways, and our last stop before New York, I took to bed. Nothing could be kept upon my stomach for any number of days. This was a fine way to punctuate a summer; a fine way to spend the days in Paris where there are always so many things to do and see. These two weeks, however, we had to calm down a bit and go a bit more slowly than usual.
In due time we took our steamer for New York and completed an itinerary back home to Colorado, by motoring through Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa with stops at various points + events to greet the folks. Thus was finished a summer chock-full of interest and activity and change.

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more I was regurgitating all over the Black Sea, the Mediterranean and so on into Paris. My self-styled morning sickness was obnoxious and tenacious. Ordinarily I am a good sailor, and up to a certain point, the more turbulent the ocean becomes the more exhilarated I become. These stomach ills of mine upon the tail end of a trying summer might easily have been mistaken for "malmere" for it was indistinguishable from the outside. Paris, being the end of the line in several ways, and our last stop before New York, I took to bed. Nothing could be kept upon my stomach for any number of days. This was a fine way to punctuate a summer; a fine way to spend the days in Paris where there are always so many things to do and see. These two weeks, however, we had to calm down a bit and go a bit more slowly than usual. In due time we took our steamer for New York and completed an itinerary back home to Colorado, by motoring through Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa with stops at various points + events to greet the folks. Thus was finished a summer chock-full of interest and activity and change.