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...awkward in the beginning,” Phil says. “When you’re around girls who are potential dates, you really react much differently than if you’re just friends. The usual thing to do is to make sure that you look your absolute best...
...boys like Phil, co-residency made possible a previously unimagined type of friendship. “You could develop relationships with girls that were no longer based on their being at their best and were no longer based on your being at your best,” he says. Students started coming to breakfast in Quincy Dining Hall in pajamas and hair curlers, without shaving or washing their hair...
...much more natural type of experience to have women all around us,” says Phil. After Barbara moved in, he spent as much time in girls’ suites as in his own—most of it in hers. They would play marathon games of Risk long into the night. Barbara always lost to Phil, who was more competitive and much more serious about...
...natural relationships that formed weren’t completely platonic. “We had a chance to see all of these potentially desirable romantic idols at their worst as well as at their best,” Phil says. “And it was okay...
...night in March 1971, Phil went next door to Barbara’s suite. He hung out with her and her roommates for an hour, stood up at 8:30 p.m., put on his jacket, and suavely asked her—and only her—to a movie in Eliot House...