HJ: Why can’t he read? It must be— OW: I don’t know. Somehow the process of turning letters into words is blocked. You have to help him with words. And he has to have therapy four times a week to keep that up. But he has something in Pat, a very devoted, attentive wife. He’s always been very lucky. He had one other wife, who died, who worshipped him for twenty-five years. He’s been coddled all his life. This evening just hangs over me now. With his stroke, and with all the people who are going to be there that I don’t know, I don’t really want to— All those socialites from Palm Springs and
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