A wholesome and wholy beautiful girl– but she’d been a woman, a real woman since fifteen– that’s when womanhood arrived for her– feels compelled, or is drawn as if by a magnet, from Nebraska to NYC.

It wasn’t ambition for fame, love, money, or the hustle and bustle of urban life.

We don’t hear so much about urban decay these days, as it is not fashionable, these days, but it wasn’t for fashion H-E was drawn, certainly not for urban decay, though, if caught in a pickle, H-E might have hunkered down in some urban decay, to make it through the night.

Throughout the stories surrounding 9 East 71st Street, the contrasts are dramatic. It is a dramatic story. How many stories does 9 East 71st Street have?

It has 7 stories.

This resonates with Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain. We’re going to need to go into this further. Maybe you and I could never have gone into 9 East 71st Street, nor could we have moved mountains, of seven storey or a pied a terre, but we all assume we understand the Biblical story of the prodigal son. Thomas Merton was a prodigal son, and his pied a terre story had to do with NYC, Mannahattas.

How many state universities are in Nebraska?

The four campuses of the University of Nebraska System are Lincoln, Kearney, Omaha,– and the Medical Center; and the three campuses of the Nebraska State College System: Chadron, Peru, and Wayne.

H-E is plunking away, swishing away, and even sashaying away, out at the barn, at her own peach basket, of known origin, Spaulding. A clear sky is above her, maybe a call of a whiporwill, or further down the road, off in the distance, the Platte River, and the mysterious clacking of an American,not Sino or Chino or Subpoeno, crane. A sandhill crane.