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Show I The Third Big BigI BigThing BigThing BigThingBy I Thing ThingBy I I II By SUSAM SUSAN FE1DMAH FELDMAN Ii 0 ! : McClure SyndicateWNU SyndicateW'o Syndicatew'it Newspaper Newspoper Newspnper Syndicate w'it wit W'o Wo ' ' U ' Service UNTIL now only two cxcitmg excitmg cxcitmgthings excitmgthings things had come into mto Anna AnnaKearn AnnaKearn AnnaKearn Kearn s twenty two years ot of lifeBoth lIte life lIteBoth lifeBoth Both occurred occurrcd when wben witen , she was only onlyseventeen onlyseventeen onlyseventeen seventeen a senior semor at high schoolAnna schoolAnna school . Anna had been the plainest and andquietest andquietest andquietest quietest girl in III her class She wasn t teven teven teven even least popular popillar She just justwasn justwasn justwasn wasn t noticed Her hair hung down downher downher downher her back bach . ina in a heavy braid Her Herclothes Herclothes Herclothes clothes were severely cut . . She spoke spoketo spoketo spoketo to no one first and when others otherstrlcd otherstried otherstried trlcd tried to make friends with her herpainfully her herpamfully herpainfully pamfully painfully forced manner led them themto themto themto to believe that she d d not desIre desIretheir desiretheir desiretheir their friendsh triendsh frfendsh pNevertheless pNevertheless p pNevertheless Nevertheless Anna delighted dellghted inlook in inlook Inlook look ng at her pretty classmates classmatesand classmatesand classmatesand and she was afflicted affucted with an al almost almost almost most tanat fanat cal worship of Don Pob Poberts Poberts Foberts erts the football hero and the most mostpopillar mostpopular mostpopular popillar popular boy m ill in schoolOne schooLOne school . One day Anna became ill III It was wasnot wasnot wasnot not a serious illness but kept her herm herin herin m in bed for a week In her room at athome athome athome home Anna was a changed person personHere personHere personHere Here she was a princess prillcess cast east into a adungeon adungeon adungeon dungeon because she would woilld not mar marry marry marry ry a powerful cruel king kIDg but re remamed reroamed remamed mamed roamed true to her poor kn ght ghtHere ghtHere ghtHere Here she was all m ill in all In her roomSHORT room roomSHORT SHORT SHORT SHORTSTORY SHORTSTORY SHORTSTORYComplete STORY STORYComplete Complete in 10 This Issueshe Issue Issueshe she let her hair tall fall loosely to her hershoillders hershoulders hershoulders shoillders shoulders It softened her face and andlent andlent andlent lent a lovely glow to her cheeks and andeyes andeyes andeyes andeyesOne eyes eyesOne One afternoon as she lay In bed bedgazmg bedgazing bedgazing gazmg gazing through the open window wmdow at atthe atthe atthe the blue skies she heard voices ill m illthe mthe inthe the yard belowAnna belowAnna below belowAnna Anna sat up and looked eagerly at atthe atthe atthe the door Slowly it opened and a acheerful acheerful acheerful cheerful voice said Your mother mothertold mothertold mothertold told me to come right up I ve ye come cometo cometo cometo to visit you and bring brmg you some somethmg something something somethingDon thmg thing thmgDon thingDon Don Roberts the high school schoolhero schoolherot schoolhero hero herot ' He had come to visit herl her ! In Inthat Inthat Inthat that moment her hero worshIp worshIpturned worshipturned worshipturned turned into something somethmg deeper and andfiner andfiner andfiner finer and she welcomed him mm WIth WIthpleasure withpleasure withpleasure pleasure and surprise Don was wasqwte wasgrate wasquite qwte grate as startled as she but only onlybecause onlybecause onlybecause because she looked so prettyGosh pretty prettyGosh prettyGosh Gosh Anna he said you look lookawfully lookawfully lookawfully awfully pretty with your hair down downWte downlike downlike Wte like that , , , and everythmgThen everythingThen everything everythmg everythingThen Then suddenly he remembered rememberedsomethmg rememberedsomething rememberedsomething somethmg something With a half sm smile e and andhalf andhalf andhalf half puzzled look on his face he hedrew hedrew hedrew drew a small candy box out of hIs hIspocket hispocket hispocket pocket Then he grinned grmned and saidHere saidHere said saidHere Here Anna is something somethmg some of ofthe ofthe ofthe the fellows elected me to bring brmg to toyou toyou toyou you I hope you ] 11 l like it itAnna . Anna thrilled with the laughter m in mhIs inhis inhis hIs eyes No one had ever before beforebeen beforebeen beforebeen been so kmd kind to her Her eyes eyesflashed eyesflashed eyesflashed flashed with delight del1ght and her fall fallwas fallwas fallwas was completeFor completeFor complete completeFor For me me7 ? ' she asked So she shetook shetook she'took shetook ' took the box opened it qu ckly and andgazed andgazed andgazed gazed petrified at its contents a abIg abig abig bIg lemon lemonI lemonThen I ' Then Don laughed and laughed laughedFor laughedFor laughedFor For one agonizing agoDlzmg moment Anna Annathought Annathought Annathought thought she would cry ThenThank ThenThank Then ThenThank Thank you Don and thank the theothers theothers theothers others It s nice mce to be remem remembered remembered remembered rememberedWhen bered beredWhen When Don left her he was imme immedlately immediately immediately dlately diately joined Jomed by a halt half dozenyouths doten dozen dotenyouths dozenyouths youths What happened9 happened ? ' they theyasked theyasked theyasked asked Whatd What d she say say9 say9Say9 ? ' Say Say9 ? ' he was full of admiral admlrat admirat on onfor onfor onfor for Anna She s a sport sportl ! She said saidThank saidThank saidThank Thank you Don and thank the oth others others others ers It s nice Dice to be remembered rememberedGee rememberedGee rememberedGee Gee she s awfully prettyFrom prettyFrom pretty prettyFrom From that day Don began to pay payattention payattention payattention attention to Anna He " , walked alked near nearher nearher nearher her talked at her invited mVlted her to ey eyery eyery eyery ery conceivable event but was cold coldly coldly coldly ly snubbed in 1D every case mClden Inciden mCldentally Incidentally Incidentally tally Anna was wearing wearmg her haIr haIrcurled haircurled haircurled curled softly about her face Don DonpersIsted Donpersisted Donpersisted persIsted m his attentions even after afterhe afterhe afterhe he bad had graduated from college collegeThough collegeThough collegeThough Though she had fo-given fo given fo-glven glven ' - ' - the lemon lemonepisode lemonepisode lemonepisode episode she seldom encouraged encouragedh1m encouragedhum encouragedhim h1m hum Finally Fmally he left tor for a positionIn posItion in f.1orethan piorethan New York That was f.1ore f1ore piore . morethan than a year ago Meanwhile Meanwmle Anna AnnalIved Annalived Annalived lIved the life lIte of the average Amer AmerIcan American Amerlean Ican girl Now as she sat in the same little littleroom littleroom littleroom room staring starmg happily at a letter and andpIcture andpicture andpicture pIcture In her hand she thought back backover backover backover over the past few years The thIrd thud thudbig thIrdbig thirdbig big thing was coming commg into mto her Ide life life'Don lifeDon ' ' Don was in ill m a position posluon to get mar marrled martied marnod rled tied and wanted her for his wife wde |