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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1964
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This column will be made up,
for the most part, by excerpts
from letters from my son. The
first one was found, in the
breadbox. one morning a couple
of weeks ago.
I'd sat up until midnight with
Hugh, convincing him that for
financial and political reasons,
his ambition to spend a couple
of weeks in Quebec. on his own,
was foolish.
The letter read "Dear family:
This is not a suicide note. By
the time you read this, I will be
sailing along the highway to-
wards the midnight sun (or
noonday noon). I'm off to
where 'the grass grows greener
still'.
"Don't think that I've run
away from home. I'm a little
too old for that and anyway the
idea's revolting. I may be dis-
illusioned and be back on my
doorstep by dinner hour, but if
everything goes as I plan,
will spend the next two weeks
in Quebec, learning French and
discussing crucial topics with
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By Bill Smiley
fiery French radicals. I know
you think I'm a romanticist and
will probably wind up in jail or
hospital, but believe it or not,
I'm quite capable of handling
myself away from home..
"Now, don't dare send the
Mounties after me, I'd be so
embarrassed I'd run away from
home for good. Besides I have
my supply of heroin with me.
Have yourselves a swingaroo at
the convention."
There was more to the letter,
but that was the gist of it, You
can imagine the ensuing scene.
His father was ready to horse-
whip him, or call in the police
and charge him with something -
or -other.
His mother was ready to have
a good cry, cut him off without
a cent, or run down the high-
way in her bare feet, calling
after him.
His kid sister was interested
but not impressed. Her com-
ment was, "What a dope!"
Then society intruded, as al-
ways. What will the neighbors
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think if he conies home in a
police car? What will the neigh -
bars think, and ask, if he
doesn't come home at all? Why
did he do this to us? Has he
no gratitude for all we've done
for him? And so on. Kim
merely repeated, "What a
dope!"
People are tough. We cooled
off, we realized there wasn't a
sensible thing we could do
about it, and we went to the
convention. But not before
we'd done some checking, and
found he'd cleaned out his bank
account, taken his guitar, and,
to his mother's extreme morti-
fication, absconded with only
two clean shirts.
Back from the convention, we
received two letters. Excerpt:
"Two really friendly ladies
drove me from Kingston to Ot-
tawa and bought me a sandwich
and milk -shake. I insisted on
paying, of course, but they told
me just to do the some for
somebody else some tine."
Excerpt: "I am going to
Grand'Mere, Quebec, to spend a
couple of weeks with a French
family. I met the boy at the
station in Ottawa. He is 19, his
name is Michel, and he's going
to U. of Montreal in the fall."
Excerpt: "I am staying with
the Ricards. He is a painter (in
houses). Mrs. Ricard is.40 and
rather pretty, a bit taller than
her husband and doesn't speak
a word of English. They are all
extremely friendly and hospit-
able. At first, I could not under-
stand a thing. They have an
accent which pronounces mere,
mire, and soeur, sire; moi is
moee and Toi, Tooee."
Pages 4 and 5 of this letter
are missing. Page 6 begins,
"Just like you, Mom," which is
driving my wife crazy.
There's a lot of other stuff,
then: "Last night, Michel and
I double -dated with one of his
girl friends and her sister (they
are both really cute). We went
to Shawinigan for a band con-
cert. There were about three
times as many boys as girls and
they all stood `bumper to bum-
per' on each side of the path
while the couples walked be-
tween them. Soon it started
pouring, so we went to a dance."
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Hear Interesting
Study on India
Unit 2 of UCW, 'under leader-
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convened for their fall meeting
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The meeting was opened with
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little message on the outside of
the envelope of his last letter.
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