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Three weeks later, it didn't really matter if there was a bunk bed or not. Beth's roommate had moved in with Jeff. But it was only October so Beth wasn't too worried. A lot of her friends hadn't met any glamorous upper classmen yet either. She would give it a few more weeks...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Back to the bathroom mirror | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Beth Johnston and her roommate were still arguing about whether to take the bunkbed apart and sacrifice the limited floor space in their freshman dorm when Jeff Robinson knocked at the door. Eight years had lapsed since Jeff's family left the Wisconsin town Beth grew up in and she probably wouldn't have remembered him if she hadn't once seen him throw a water balloon at their Sunday school principal. Their families still exchanged Christmas cards and Jeff was dutifully obeying maternal commandment to "check up on little Bethie" during her first week at Harvard...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Back to the bathroom mirror | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...After Jeff finished dismembering and reassembling the beds, he invited Beth and her roommate out for their first Cambridge beer. They chatted for a half hour about course catalogues and freshmen seminars and compared notes on where to buy cheap plants and how bad the food at the Union was. Jeff was clearly enjoying his first chance to play the worldly upperclassman (he was a sophomore) and in the midst of a discourse on how not to get lost in Widener Library, he paused dramatically...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Back to the bathroom mirror | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...coed school but was still a little wary of the strains the ratio placed on both the men and the women here. But she also had to admit the thought of all those excess men sounded awfully nice after four years in a small, rural high school. And Jeff's conversation made her even more optimistic. Sure the system was rotten but she felt pretty confident she-d be able to enjoy herself here...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Back to the bathroom mirror | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

...waited a few more weeks and then a few more months. By that time, most of her friends were "attached" and she spent a lot of weekends ostensibly studying but actually looking in the mirror to figure out what was wrong with her. And she stopped saying hello to Jeff...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Back to the bathroom mirror | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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