Word: offish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan. Fry remembers his four years there as "wonderful, difficult years"; his parishioners remember him as the young man who increased the congregation from 200 to 400. In the choir he found "the first and only girl I was ever attracted to-I suppose because she was a strange, offish person, too. She sang soprano solos, was quiet, not especially pretty, and she was going with another fellow at the time. We would go to the opera together. I remember asking permission to kiss her -it was granted, to my surprise." Hilda Drewes and Pastor Fry were engaged...