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good relationships."
Tbat idea brought him back to
Anita, and he added, "I think we have
a sacred bond between us, that's
Overcome the craziness of pop love. I
mean, the Western concept of love is
like a bottle of Coca Cola you find in
the desert after wandering around for
about eight days. Once you've drunk
it, it s gone. If you're gonna' be nice
You're going to share it with whoever
You're with, but at some point it's
going to disappear. In other words,
it's a limited source. It's something
You fall into, out of a Freudian notion
in a monogamous relationship. He
joked, "It's a change that would make
my mother happy. Jane's not Jewish
though."
Monogamy was a condition new to
Abbie; it ran counter to his 60's life
style but seemed suited to Under-
ground work. "I think of things in
challenges. I feel good about
monogamy, but I don't have any
conception that this is the way things
are going to be in one or two years.
I'm more unstuck in time than most
people because of the nature of the
occupation I find myself in."
"I flipped out....I was yelling who I
was, and screaming, and knocking down
furniture."
of deficiency: that people are
raotivated toward things because
they lack something else. If you write
a great book or climb a mountain or
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njoy a love, it s because you're
lacking something."
So Abbie loved Anita, but he also
loved Jane, whom he was living with
I looked across the formica table
and greasy french fries at Jane, and
wondered about the full sense of
partnership that must be developing
between them. Only a few hours later
I learned how she'd saved Abbie's life.
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