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{{byline|last=Stratton|first=Richard|abstract=A writer recounts his relationship with Norman {{NM}}, beginning in the 1970s.
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{{dc|dc=“I|t was the early 1970's.”}} I was living in [[w:Provincetown, Massachusetts|Provincetown, Massachusetts]], on a writing fellowship at the [[w:Fine Arts Work Center|Fine Arts Work Center]]. Across Commercial Street, the narrow lane meandering through town, cater-cornered to the garret apartment where I lived, was a big red brick house on Cape Cod Bay. A young woman, Bobbi, worked in that house as a cook and housekeeper for Norman Mailer. Bobbi lived in the ground floor apartment of the building I lived in and over the fall and winter months we became friends.
{{dc|dc=“I|t was the early {{date|1970}}’s.”}} I was living in [[w:Provincetown, Massachusetts|Provincetown, Massachusetts]], on a writing fellowship at the [[w:Fine Arts Work Center|Fine Arts Work Center]]. Across Commercial Street, the narrow lane meandering through town, cater-cornered to the garret apartment where I lived, was a big red brick house on Cape Cod Bay. A young woman, Bobbi, worked in that house as a cook and housekeeper for Norman Mailer. Bobbi lived in the ground floor apartment of the building I lived in and over the fall and winter months we became friends.


“You should meet Norman,” Bobbi said to me one evening as we sat drinking wine and talking. “You guys would hit it off.”
“You should meet Norman,” Bobbi said to me one evening as we sat drinking wine and talking. “You guys would hit it off.”