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On the last Sunday evening in August, 1958, I was overseeing the early evening cleanup at the Tremont Cafe when I received a telephone call just after the dinner rush.

I stood behind the service counter talking to one of my Uncle Johnny's old railroad buddies when Grandma Rose answered the phone.

"Butch, honey?" she called from the front corner of the store, near the cash register. "You got a phone call, Butch."

"Who is it?" I asked.

"I dunno, Butch, but it's for you."

This could only be JoAnn, I thought, and I walked to the phone.

"Hello?"

"Steven? It's Martha."

"Oh, Martha! Hello. I thought you were dead!"

"Well, not yet, hon."

"Your Southern accent has totally disappeared."

"Has it? Do I sound like one of those enraged New Yorkers?"

"No, no, you sound just fine."

"What's all that noise in the background?"

"That's the juke box in this place. Is it awful, or what? Here, hold on, I'm moving the telephone into the corner behind the cigar counter, maybe that'll help. There. Is that better?"

"Yes, a little. It's a little better. Steven, I had to call all over town to find you. Doesn't anybody know where you hang out? I called your mother, and she had me call your Aunt Frances, and nobody answered, and then... well, anyway, I finally got through to you."

"Yeah, well, they don't pay very much attention to me, whether I tell them where I am or not."

"Yes, I found that out. Well... how's school? How'd your play turn out? Have you started anything for the fall?"

My play, the play I never got into? The play I told Martha I was going to take time out for?

I said, "Oh, it was, uh, really great. You know, no big deal, these things come and go. I'll be in something else soon."

"You never wrote me about it."

"No... I've been really busy with all that. Y'know?"

"Please write me, Steven, and let me know how you're doing. You have me so worried sometime. I know I don't always answer, but... you know what would happen with your folks if mail and phone calls started showing up all over. They might... I'm sorry about that, but we talked about it. It's just that I didn't hear from you for a few weeks, and you usually write, even when I can't answer."

"No, I understand that."

"Sometimes..." She cleared her throat. The tension was back in her voice again. "Sometimes I can't answer. Sometimes, I just don't know what to say to help you. But you didn't write this time, so I was just wondering, I was... I'm sorry I never come to Memphis, I'd be able to keep track if I did, but... you know, I don't feel any better about Memphis than you do. And I just don't have the money to spare."

"No, no. It's no problem, Martha, really, uh... Listen, I'll write and let you know everything. I'll write this week."

"Oh, good, I know you'll have lots of juicy news about your plays and things you're working on. And let me know if you need any information on colleges up here. I can get all you need."

"Yeah. Yeah, I will."

"Well? You're not going to tell me how you're doing?"

"Oh, uh, I'm okay. You know, there really wasn't that much to write about, and I thought you'd be so busy with all you're doing. You probably couldn't answer anyway."

She paused. Her voice dropped. "That's my fault for you thinking that way. It is. It's my fault. I'm sorry, hon."

"Couldn't be helped, I guess."

"No, it's my fault. I should -- Well, it's too late for that now, I guess. I didn't mean to let you down, but something very, very... important was happening, and I just -- I just couldn't. I didn't know how it would turn out, so I couldn't say anything."

"Yes, you said that."

"You sound different."

"Different?"

"You sound cross. You sound the way you sound when you're bored and frustrated, and hiding it."

"Oh. I guess it's because I'm in this damn restaurant tonight. You know how it is, gotta bring in that paycheck. I'm surprised they pay me for such boring work. Mostly, I just drive people around, or I just sit here."

"But you're saving up."

"Oh yes! Millions."

"No, seriously. Are you saving?"

"Yes. I'm saving plenty. Really. I have a pretty good pile in the bank right now. Enough, actually, to get up there for a while."

"And a car? You told me your Aunt Frances lets you use a car of your own?"

"Yeah."

"Well, that's great! I mean, now you can do your work and get around town and to school. And to your rehearsals! You won't be stuck on those buses any more. Does that Uncle Vic character let you take the time you need for the theater?"

"Oh, sure. Yeah. He's nice."

"Good, Steven. That's wonderful."

"Yeah, so... what's happening up there?"

"Steven... Listen, I... I had to reach you tonight, this has been on my mind for a while now, and... Steven... hon, are you there? You still there?"

"Yes, I'm here. Still here."

"Oh, I heard weird noises."

"I was moving the telephone set, Martha, it's so noisy in here."

"Oh, that's what it was. Well... Steven, I... Well, you remember I told you, none of us knew what might be happening, and my own jobs were so irregular and everything, and... Well, I might be moving to Connecticut. To Riverside, Connecticut. It's about an hour north of New York on the commuter train. On the New Haven Line."

"Oh, I see. But you can still get to New York?"

"Oh, yes, that's no problem. And I still work in Manhattan for the time being, but... Steven..."

"Yeah? I'm still here."

"I know you are... Steven... I..." Over the line, I heard her swallow hard. "Promise me, now, you won't get upset or anything. I mean, I'm not really sure how you feel about this, I'm not... I..." She took another breath. "You know, we talked. Before you left. And I -- Steven, I have so much going on up here. I can't tell if it's all falling apart at once, or all falling together at once. It seems it's been so long since I've seen you, and... I wonder if... I wonder sometimes, if you're still who you were when you were here. If you changed that much, because I don't see you. And that's just the way it is, I guess, the way it had to be. I mean, I know you've changed. You're bound to have changed."

"No, I didn't change *that* much. I improved, I hope."

"Oh, I know. I know you've done better. And I've done better, too. I had to start moving around and working on my social skills. Not be so temperamental, I guess."

"Yeah? Were you ever temperamental?"

She chuckled. "You know I was, hon. I was all the time."

"No, you weren't."

"Well... There were lots of reasons for that, Steven. And I was concerned for you. But you did so well up here. I was so proud of you. You grew up quite a lot."

"Thanks to you pushing me into it."

"Well, lord, I had to. You're so stubborn. But you're also very sweet, Steven. I don't know if you realize it, but you taught me, too. You taught me more than you can imagine. I guess -- I guess I had some growing up to do, too. Some things I had to accept. Some things I needed that I -- I didn't think I did. So we all grew up some. And I want to thank you. I want to thank you for all you did."

"Not me. You were the brains behind everything. I just followed you around."

"Yes, for a while. But you learned, I think -- I hope -- I hope you learned that you don't have to any more. I hope you learned that."

"Yes. Yes, I did."

"And I'm not exactly the perfect leader. I make mistakes."

"You never make mistakes."

"Oh, you're getting so good at buttering me up. You've certainly learned a few things yourself. On your own. And you went out looking for change, and new ideas. You're a lot more on your own than you think you are. And I'm -- I'm a lot less on my own than I thought I was. But things happened." Her voice dropped. "Lots of things happened, that I had given up on. I'm not a very good example. I kept telling you, don't give up. That's something that I -- that's something I should have been telling myself, too."

"This sounds very mysterious."

"Hm?"

"This all sounds very mysterious."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to -- I didn't mean to wander like that. I'm just so -- uncertain."

"Uncertain about what?"

"Well...

"Uncertain about what? Come on."

"Steven, a very... wonderful thing has happened. It doesn't even feel real. But a very nice thing happened."

"Okay."

Again, she swallowed hard enough for me to hear it over the phone. "Steven... I've met someone."

The juke box blared. The restaurant was crowded at the tail end of the dinner hour. The music and the customers and the clanking pots receded into nowhere. All I could hear was the telephone in my ear.

"I met him a long time ago, actually, but nothing ever really happened, you know, and then... several months ago... Steven, promise me that you won't... Oh... darn it."

"I promise. Why do you want me to promise something? You've met people before."

"Steven... I want to move in with him. For a while. A little while. And try... I want... Oh, Steven, I... I think I'm..." Her voice fell to a tense whisper. "Oh, this is so scary, it's so scary when I hear myself saying it. It's just --" She took a breath, and another. "I'm pretty sure we're going to get married. Before the end of October."

"... Oh... I see, well... that's..."

"That's why I had to reach you. I didn't want you to get this in the mail or anything like that, and I'm packing now. Can you believe this, all the packing I've done, and I'm packing again! But I'm... I'm so nervous! This decision just jumped up on me. I've known him for so long, but this is so sudden, it's... It just happened, it just seemed to happen after nothing for so long. He's talked about it for weeks and weeks, and I kept saying no, wait, it's such a big change, it changes everything. I couldn't even tell Ronnie. Not at first. Not all of it, not until yesterday. But I told him --" She breathed shakily, her voice almost a whisper again. "I don't believe it, I don't even believe it. I couldn't say yes, I couldn't. All I could say was I'd try, I'd try for a short time. I'd see." She stopped for a moment. I kept listening. She spoke normally again. "But I'm moving in a few days to stay with him in Connecticut, and I thought if you called I wouldn't have the phone here anymore in Manhattan, and I... Well, I just decided this weekend to say yes. And I couldn't do it without telling you, Steven... Steven? Hon?"

"Yeah. I'm here. I'm -- It's okay."

"Steven... Do you understand what I mean? I'm trying to say... Hon, it was... Well, I didn't expect it. I just didn't expect it."

"Well, sure, you... uh... you really like this guy. Right?"

"Yes, I do, Steven. I do. Not like with you, in so, so many ways, but... Well, it's just very different. My whole life has changed so quickly, it just -- I don't know how to explain it, and this isn't the time to try, but... Steven... sweetheart, I hope this doesn't... You know how much I care about you. I've been -- hon, I've been so worried! I sat up late on the phone with Ronnie, to her boyfriend's place, for hours. Hours. And she sounded so surprised, so worried. She was -- I mean, she seemed so distraught, she kept saying I was going away, she kept saying she'd never see me again. And I kept telling her no, no, it was still me, I'd always be her friend. Always. I couldn't believe she was so upset. And I kept telling her, 'But Ronnie, you found somebody and it didn't stop us, it didn't cut us off.' You know, our friendship just went back to where it was before last summer, back to where it always was. And that hasn't changed. She had new responsibilities, but it didn't change the way we felt. But you know how she is, this fear of abandonment, this thing about everything suddenly falling apart for her. But she did settle down after a while, she did start to listen, and it was okay. She realized that I'd have new responsibilities too, certainly, but that wouldn't change the way we feel." She sighed. "So, after I spent all that time getting her feeling better again, I just -- I just sat there, hanging on the phone, going crazy myself! And she ended up playing Mama to *me*. It was so strange, it was so -- And I kept telling her and telling myself over the phone, it's not really happening, not really. Not after all this time, not with someone who -- I mean, I wasn't even looking for it. I wasn't even looking."

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Neither my parents nor Martha Jane's mother were home that week. For the first time, Martha Jane slept overnight with me. When I woke, earlier than usual, the morning sun was just peeking over the rooftops of the project buildings beyond mine. Two radiant shafts of sunlight poured through the bedroom's double window and across the middle of the bed. Martha Jane was not with me, but I knew where she was by the muffled sound of running water behind the closed bathroom door. I could not have...

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I sat dumbfounded while viewing my first foreign language film, so amazed, that at first I didn't feel Martha nudge me with her elbow in the dark theater until she did so insistently. I turned to her. She wiggled her fingers near my face. Understanding, I took her hand in mine. She smiled contentedly and hugged our clasped hands against her thigh over her skirt. She rubbed my arm cozily, and turned back to the movie. I had never seen such a film. The movie was "Bicycle Thief," which had...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 19F

I blinked. The room was black. The candle was out. Vaguely, I heard distant sparrows. Vaguely, I felt a warm, small, still hand resting on my cheek, barely touching my skin. I saw lips near my face, and a face so close to mine that my sleepy eyes couldn't focus on it. Before I saw any features or sensed any other signals, I knew the face and hand were Martha's. I was on my back but leaning slightly to my right, my right arm slung across the bed toward the night table at the right of the...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 15D

Ronnie said to me as I sat nude on a three-legged stool and she started drawing, "Martha won't let me draw her, you know." I asked "Why not?" "She sat for me about the time we first met. When we were roommates. And she had such a classic, gorgeous figure, I told her she just had to pose nude for me, just *had* to. Or in a swim suit or something." "She wouldn't?" Ronnie sighed, erasing something. "No." I said, trying to balance myself with one foot on the floor and my other...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 17B

Monday morning, Martha went back to the same old grind. After she left for work I went back to my same old grind, jogging to Central Park and hanging a few chin-ups from a tree limb. I was closer to Memphis, no closer to staying in New York or finding ways to get back more often, no nearer to a conclusion about my feelings for Martha or Ronnie. I did have cash in my pocket and a bundle of traveler's checks I'd earned from posing. While I was cleaning up at Martha's, Ronnie called on the...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 17A

Saturday, August 24, 1957. I woke up at six. Martha slept like a log beside me. Even after a good night's sleep, I was grumpy; I was ready for life to ease up. Nothing was turning out the way I wanted it to. Two weeks left in New York. I had a hard run through Central Park, trying to run past unease and frustration but feeling it keeping pace with me. When I arrived at Martha's I was covered with sweat. Martha was in the kitchen shower. She swept aside the shower curtain and peered out...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 20E

One day in early October when I came home very late from school, Mom said as I entered the kitchen, "Oh, there you are. You missed Martha Jane's call. I told her I didn't know where you were. I said tonelessly, "Okay." I opened the refrigerator, looking for something to eat. Mom stood with her hands in the dishwater. "That reminds me, she called a couple of weeks ago, and you weren't here then, either. I guess I forgot all about it." I took a milk carton out of the refrigerator....

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 15A

Saturday. In my mind, it was Anita Day. Anita didn't attend the Saturday class. I called her on the telephone the day before. She said she had a busy schedule and wouldn't be at Fiore's, but I was to meet her for the party with her friends at her godparents' home. My exhausting Friday night with Martha and Ronnie had me in a calm mood for handling myself in a sexually civilized manner with Anita. In fact, I found myself hiding out again when I met Anita and we strolled to the expensive...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 20B

I had a few disastrous flirtations. The Brothers held a sophomore class prom. Those who couldn't find a date could get one through Brother Lawrence's contacts with the Catholic girls' schools in town. At first, my sister was going to fix me up with a blind date. After meeting several of her girlfriends I decided I'd be better off with pot luck through Brother Lawrence. How bad could it be, I told myself, after some of my dates in New York? But trying it was. Being driven to and from the...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 15C

During the week, Ronnie set me up with two posing assignments. They went well, although I found myself very restless while trying to hold a single pose for more than fifteen minutes. I posed twice for the same artist, a middle-aged woman in Greenwich Village whose apartment walls were literally flooded with drawings, paintings, and photographs by herself and others. She seemed quite pleased with me, and she gave me some pointers on how to promote myself and register with various services. I...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 18C

When I opened my eyes Saturday morning the sun was shining with a brightness that told me it had been daylight for hours. The little fan on the window whirred steadily, streaming air toward the bed. I glanced at the clock. Eight twenty. Martha was half on me, using my chest for a pillow. I stroked her hair. She didn't stir. I kissed her hair and caressed her shoulder. On my other side, Ronnie had turned away and slept curled on her side, her tush against my hip, my arm still cradling her...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 4D

Martha Jane and my mother helped me walk into our apartment, where they settled me face up on the sofa and placed a wet rag over my face. Mom called the relative who lived closest to us in town, my Grandma Rose Ricci, to hurry over in their car and get me to nearby St. Joseph's Hospital. But Grandma Rose was too distraught to drive and she called my Aunt Frances, who in turn was so distraught she called my Aunt Josephine, who in turn was also so distraught she called her niece, my cousin...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 16E

Friday. Martha woke with a start at a quarter to seven. "Damn! The alarm didn't go off!" She ran into the bathroom. I shook my head and rubbed my eyes. It occurred to me that I had not changed Martha's alarm back to its regular wake-up time after setting the alarm for Fiore's appointment the day before. Crap! As if I hadn't already disrupted Martha's existence! I ran into the kitchen and got the coffee started and made toast. In the bathroom, Martha was on the rampage, dropping...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 19B

Wednesday morning. My last Wednesday in New York. While Martha showered that morning in the kitchen I finished making coffee and toast and I put on my running clothes. Then I remembered that I was supposed to take a day off from working-out. Martha hurried into the living room to gulp down her coffee and toast. She saw me lounging at the table. "You didn't run yet?" "Takin' a day off." "Good!" She bent down to me, then she sat on my lap with an arm around my shoulder. "Good. You...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 3C

At the time, most of this went right past my very young level of awareness--but I clearly understood that she was troubled. I knew that I somehow had to stay with her and believe in her and help her in some way. I wanted to bring indescribable pleasure and comfort to her. She was making me feel loved and tickly now, and I wanted desperately to do the same for her. I found the folds of her skirt and tried to gather them up, but had a hard time; my hands were too small. She stepped back, not...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 7D

Mom convulsed into a tight ball on her side and retched feebly, making a small sticky red stain in the kleenex she held to her mouth. Then she relaxed with a pitiful moan. "What's wrong?" I asked, going swiftly to her side of the bed. She licked her lips clean and tried to catch her breath. Not getting an answer, I raised my voice fearfully. "What's wrong? What happened?" "I'm sick, Speedy. It came on... all of a sudden." "What's wrong? When did it start?" "Called your...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 2B

She led me to the bedroom and I jumped onto the mattress, as I usually did, and waited for her to turn out the light and fluff up the pillows, as she usually did. But this time she stood very quietly in the dark near the edge of the bed. She took off her bra and panties. I had seen her bra-less often enough, but now she was totally nude. I remember how she looked, her smoky green eyes and frizzy auburn hair reflecting the moonlight. She was slim but not skinny, slightly curvy in the upper...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 16A

Twenty teens gathered in the small theater in Anita's building. They were a very mixed group from all over the metropolitan area, some of them rich kids that had attended Anita's earlier party, others were apparently not so rich. A very democratic crowd. I was surprised to see a couple of black couples, an unlikely presence in Memphis. Both couples appeared to be from overseas. Maury sat down front with his coterie of seven or eight admirers, all of them in suits. Chris sat in the farthest...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 5E

I whispered, "Let's do this for a while. Just this. Okay?" She swallowed again. "Yes." For a while we silently enjoyed touching and stroking each other with no particular goal in mind other than pleasing ourselves and discovering all the things about us that had changed. As we touched and played we talked. I told her about the plays I'd done, how movies and photography and history had captured so much of my life. She told of her classes, her work, what she had learned. I didn't...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 7C

We reached the top of the stairs. She stood in the middle of the living room and looked about. She sighed downheartedly, "I'm so tired of this." Suddenly she started crying; she frowned and then squinted hard, and her eyes closed and squeezed out small pearly tears that tumbled quickly down her cheeks. "I'm so tired of this," she wept, and covered her face quickly with her hands. I went to her and held her shoulders, letting her lean against me with her face in my chest. For a minute...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 13A

During the night I awoke twice, finding it dark and still outside. Each time, I felt creepy and giddy and unable to define the vexing nervousness in my legs and chest. When I awoke the third time, it was daylight. Martha was walking into the bedroom in her heels. Dressed and ready for work, she came to my side of the bed. She asked, "What on earth were you dreaming about all night?" I turned onto my back, rubbing my bleary eyes. "I was dreaming?" She sat on the bed and rested a hand on...

Adventures of Me and Martha JaneChapter 7E

The birthday party went on and on, with no surprises disturbing the world of my dead father's family, nothing changing, nothing learned, nothing decided. Soon everyone was hugging and kissing and saying goodbye. During the party I longed to be anywhere but there. I spent the whole time waiting for next Saturday to arrive. This world was a far cry from the world of Martha Jane, an eternity away from our secrets in the dark, of naked flesh reveling in affection and pleasure, of whispered...

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