¡¡I thought, well...that's a wife for you. She aroused us to shouting, bookwaving discussions.I guess, the children will remember. She had the noisiest class in school and she didn’t even seem to know it.Then, thechildren came into breakfast, but, they didn'tsay a word. ¡¡¡¡When I started to the office, I was feeling pretty low and despondent. We could never stick to the subject.As I walked into myoffice, my secretary Janet said, ""Good morning,Boss, happy birthday."" And I felt a little better,someone had remembered. ¡¡¡¡I worked until noon. She breathed curiosity into us so that we brought in facts or truths shielded in our hands like captured fireflies.Then, Janet knocked on my door and said, ""You know, it's such a beautifulday outside, and it's your birthday, let's goto lunch, just you and me."" ¡¡¡¡I said, ""That's the greatest thing I've heardall day. She was fired and perhaps rightly so, for failing to teach fundamentals.Let's go."" ¡¡¡¡So, we went to lunch. Such things must be learned.We didn't go where wenormally go. But she left a passion in us for the pure knowable world and she inflamed me with a curiosity which has never left.We went out into the country toa little private place. I could not do simple arithmetic but through her I sensed that abstract mathematics was very much like music.We had two martinis and enjoyed lunch tremendously. ¡¡¡¡On the way back to the office, Janet said,""You know, it's such a beautiful day. When she was relieved, a sadness came over us but the light did not go out.We don't need to go back to the office, do we. She left her signature on us, the literature of the teacher who writes on minds."" ¡¡¡¡I said, ""No, I guess not."" ¡¡¡¡She said, ""Let's go to my apartment."" ¡¡¡¡After arriving at her apartment, she said,""Boss, if you don't mind, I think I'll go in to the bedroom, and slip into something more comfortable."" ¡¡¡¡""Sure,"" I excitedly replied. ¡¡¡¡Janet went into the bedroom and, in about sixminutes, she came out carrying a big birthdaycake, followed by my wife, children and dozensof my friends. I suppose that to a lager extent I am the unsigned manuscript of the high school teacher.All were singing ""Happy Birthday"".. What deathless power lies in the hands of such a person.and there I sat on the couch ... I can tell my son who look s forward with horror to fifteen years of drudgery that somewhere in the dusty dark a magic may happen that will light up the years…if he is very lucky.naked. " . "A husband-and-wife team reached the Pacific Ocean on Saturday after a 4,900-mile cross-country hike, becoming the first to backpack the transcontinental American Discovery Trail in one continuous trek. Marcia and Ken Powers started Feb. 27 at Cape Henlopen in Delaware. Nearly eight months later, they looked out over the Pacific Ocean at Point Reyes. ""We feel great. ...

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