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there. I had a nice, comfortable home. I enjoyed it. I liked the way it was. I liked the friends I had. I liked the kind of life you had in New York. I had just gotten my head above water so that I could enjoy it. The idea of leaving it seemed just terrible to me. I'm quite a domestic person at heart. I have an awful lot of domestic instincts. I don't cook, to be sure, but except for cooking I like everything else you do about the house. I like to dust. I like to clean paint. I like to fix the furniture. I take an interest in seeing that everything is done in an orderly and proper way and that everything goes right. I like all that. I have that just intuitively.

I realized that I would have to step right out of all that if I went to Washington. What I knew about Washington was that it made total demands upon your total time. I would live under some circumstances where I practically had no home - that is, where I had no responsibilities for it. I would have to hang my hat in some dignified and respectable place. God knows what it would be like! I require a lot of privacy for my life and couldn't think of living in a hotel. Anyway, I saw that I wouldn't have what I had had in New York.

I didn't want to give up my happy home. I didn't want to give up living with my child. I didn't want to





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