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It was in April or May of the year I was in DC that I met MaryJ. I met her while riding bike at the Washington Monument. I was usually painfully shy around girls in particular. She had long brown hair and an ankle length light summer dress of a fashion more like a hundred years earlier. She was not my ideal in appearance, but for some reason I began to ride my bike 'round her in circles. So we met. She was a California girl attending school at Antioch College in Ohio, and on a work program working for a congressman. She was way ahead of me culturally, I being small town provincial and so she introduced me to subtitle films, music, fashions and politics of which I had not previously known. At some point later after we dated for a bit, we decided to live together.
I didn’t have a clue as to how one would go about renting a place to live. She lived in this small apartment on the officially designated campus of George Washington University that she shared with a friend. With this same friend and her boyfriend, I decided to watch drag racing on the TV. MaryJ was embarrassed and made fun of me. So when we were alone I let her have it on that one. At any rate soon after she got a different place from the same landlady for just the two of us.
This part of Washington was a beautiful place. The George Washington campus was mixed in with mostly private homes and boarding houses. The streets were tree lined and the houses were old Victorians in some places mixed with university buildings, fraternities and sororities, private and rental housing. So we had a small first floor apartment, but for not long.
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