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Mattie wrote love notes to John, sometimes slipping them into the lunches she fixed him before he left for work. In one note from the late fifties, she writes, "You know it's a strange thing, the things I dream of, that is, you and me, in the house of our dream[s]. I keep picturing us in it, you in your smoking jacket, me in my lounging outfit, which I've already designed in my mind. -

Monkeys and primates could sell music. With Clear Channel [a radio and media conglomerate, since rebranded as iHeartMedia] it becomes like Soylent Green—people feeding people to people. We need to tell them that they keep trying to ram Katy Perry and Ed Sheeran down our throats and we don't like it no matter how many times they play it.

Laura kissed me three times that day. Each time was my 1st. The obligatory husband on the way 2 work kiss, one when U returned, & one b4 U went 2 sleep that night. Those kisses—not lasting over 3 seconds each, in line with the Hayes Code, mind U—were everything 2 me. Laura was initiating everything & moved her head just like the married people in the movies.