Show BROADWAY AND MAIN ST STREET REET real roses in the cheeks 11 TB j 11 r it you call that a handicap 0 by BILLY ROSE when eleanor and I 1 first moved up to mt kisco some of our neighbors dropped by to pay their respects but I 1 encourage these visits the landed gentry of westchester are nice enough folk but burthey they dont talk my lingo besides I 1 see no point in cultivating people who think its smart to chase a fox but a little down the road from us live a couple I 1 cultivate as often as hove have me their names are fred and jane newell I 1 met th them through eleanor two years yeara ago and ill never forget the first night 7 we had dinner at their house jane answered the doorbell she was pretty all over andi and I 1 liked her right away excuse the peasant skirt the sha said 1 I have ababa a baby penciled in tor for the fall f fred was in the living room listening to the radio he had the tweedy look odthe of the V good guy in the magazine stories we talked for a couple of minutes before I 1 realized he be W was a 0 blind ile he told me he was a writer and answered my unspoken question billy rose by explaining he dictated his tuft stuff to his wife it was a fine dinner and a fine evening jane carried her child as if 11 baby having were some kind of party around eleven fred said bold to jane maybe the roses would like ice cream maybe they would said jane but we any IU ill drive down to the village andret and get some IU ill go with you I 1 said just to make sure you dont forget chocolate ON TIIE WAY to the ice cream parlor I 1 said tell me something what makes you kids act as it if you had a gold mine in the cellar jane jan smiled 1 I dont dons know I 1 guess weve been pretty lucky lucket Luc kyt kyl I 1 said and men slopped popped embarrassed its iss oil all right said laid sane 1101 of course it would be b nicer if fred could ie see but bul neither ot of us uj minks abali very important illoyd howd it happen war stuff said jane rag ments menta of a land mine on okinawa we married then fred was move moved d to a hospital in san sail francisco the first letters letter she ha sent me in disown his own handwriting ile he explained that ho he was dictating to a nurse because hed been wounded in the right richt hand atthe at the time he still had some hope thata that a special operation might restore his sight ile he want to tell me about his eyes until he knew for sure dawell TIIE THE OPERATION OPE RATION was a complete miss out when fred knew hed never see again the darn fool wrote me that I 1 was free to marry anybody 4 I 1 liked of course I 1 hopped a plane to san francisco and got my fella batta atta girl I 1 said now tell me to shut my face if im out of line but it ever bother houi you I 1 mean making this sacrifice Sacr sacrifice ilice my foot said jant fans softly loftly look at as it Is this way im two years away from 30 in 10 years year ill be two iwo away from 40 ahn fred went oil off lodvar to war I 1 was 23 real roses its n cheeks probably I 1 ever looked in my life fils 7 from rom here in no matter what happens tome to me wrinkles dry skin gray hairs babies fred will always see me as the fresh faced kid ho he kissed goodbye at penn station in 42 for the guy im era crazy z Y about ill be 23 the rest of my life Is that bad no I 1 said that bad at all |