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        "No railing and it was a long way up. I hadn't called to say that I was coming. Didn't even know their names. The man who had been in Luke's unit and the local girl he had married. One of the Marini girls the old Veteran had said. They remembered that but not the name of the soldier she had married.

These days I too only remember in fragments....".

"Never set up a studio in Crockett although Luke urged me to do so. Felt paralyzed. The inescapable reminders of war. Headlines. Uniforms. Comings and goings. Orchestrated by some unseen hand in Washington.

In the eight months which we spent there, I filled one sketchbook with minutely detailed drawings. Very different from the way that my work developed although in retrospect in each drawing one object dominated the picture in the way that the women do now.

Like Luke's shaving brush. I drew it larger than actual size.

In this drawing his shaving kit lay open, revealing also the razor and a nail file. I remember rendering the shine of their ivory handles.....".