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222 The Motion Picture Retirement Home, Two East: What Is She Reading? What is she reading? Still reading the biography of Esther Williams who used to live down the street and invited them for drinks although they were not movie people, really. Her husband sold drapes to the studios, but that was another story. Esther invited them for drinks anyway. So what is she asking for? Juice, she just had juice, but she hasn’t had juice in years, at least not in those nice cut crystal goblets that replaced the jelly jar collection after the children grew up enough to hold a good glass in their hands without dropping it. Her daughter comes with crystal necklaces on the weekend and leaves them with her. She used to twine them around her wrists in the style of Esther Williams. Such a nice woman Miss Williams was, invited them to parties many times. What was Esther Williams thinking? That her husband could redo the drapes for nothing? That they were rich enough living in Bel Air, too, almost next door, so why not? ...

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