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DE BRI S I knew she was sick but how sick If youre T4youre already gorgeously sick its hard for your 2o-year-old grandson to know really to pick up deaths black telephone warn the relatives see the obvious steaming into this week like an aircraft carrier launching into 3o knots of wind A-7 Corsairs easing down onto the coffee table Bondaddy got Mimi when he was stationed in Panama dark oriental Myrna Loy stuff blackened with furniture polish and stories and the bourbon of admirals when they visited r3B Charles Street grand admirals from every ocean and evely navy even the German navy an elegant old ex-World-War-I U-boat captain whom I was allowed to call Admiral Weisner Fred Weisner a go-year-old noble with black eyes who clicked his heels upon meeting you in that room with a mean streak as black as the thin little line you pull out of a shrimp so the things just completely pink and so of course the grandson was going to be a midshipman when he grew up how do you do a bourbon alumni dream of a grandson burning his eyes out over the books and studying literature up in Mahan Hall up to his armpit in Hemingway and the greats in the conference room where the best students gathered all sitting at a huge heirloom of a table given to Commodore Perry by the Emperor of Japan when he broke the curtain of silence in r 853 and established trade relations ha the Japanese thought Americans were giants eight-foot devils absolute white giants because the Japanese table rose up to my Adams apple 8 black-shrimped midshipmen sitting at the Table of Giants visiting Mimi occasionally sure when there was enough liberty to 9