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<p>Created page.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{LJtop}}<br /> I lost weight all last summer and fall because I was generating the {{LJ:lerve}} necessary to change a good many old habits, habits which had grown to the point of strangling me. When I married Adele,{{LJ:Adele}} I made the decision to change my habits. If I had remained as I was, I would have drowned in depression. <br /> <br /> So, I am still capable of adapting, and the knowledge that I can adapt gives me optimism again as well as a sense of greater fear, but fear with dignity attached, for I recognize that my old neurotic fears were disgusting to me because I could not understand the validity of them. My new fears I take on as a gambler. Which is why I “romanticize” myself, ergo infuriating all my rationally-determined friends. Every gambler is a romantic, he knows that life and death ride on every ball on every wheel.<br /> <br /> But how much harder this would have been without Lipton’s.<br /> <br /> {{Notes|title=note|width=60em}}<br /> <br /> {{LJnav}}<br /> [[Category:February 14, 1955]]</div>

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