YOUR FORTUNE BY THE STARS - XI: Nov. 22 - Dec. 22 - Sign is Sagittarius, and Jupiter is your planet. Astral colors, red, green and gold. Creative, intellectual and phlegmatic. Original and not inclined to fall in with the ideas of others. Good thinkers, keen and quick to see an advantage. Apt to be successful in any business undertaking.
All I have thought of today is your letter! And you. I enjoyed the bridge party at Eva's and the dancing, too. It was almost more than I could stand when (over the radio) they played "Silver Moon." I was far from you, with a crowd of other boys and girls. Through their talking and merry laughter I could hear you (so far away) singing to me, never forgetting me. All the bridge, dancing, and company in the world could not make me forget you!
YOUR FORTUNE BY THE STARS - XI: Nov. 22 - Dec. 22 - Sign is Sagittarius, and Jupiter is your planet. Astral colors, red, green and gold. Creative, intellectual and phlegmatic. Original and not inclined to fall in with the ideas of others. Good thinkers, keen and quick to see an advantage. Apt to be successful in any business undertaking.
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A letter from you! And an invitation. Why do conventions exist? It is true that they are girls safest protection but why can they never be broken? I would be as safe with you at Beach Haven as I would be with my own brother! More so! Daddy is too "set" to give in even for a day! John, I want you for my own! I want to be with you!
Today you left for two long weeks alone at B. and every evening you will be on the beach thinking of me? And I of you! And I took a long ride with Alice, Bill Jones, and Bob Waltimate! It was all I could do to be sociable. I have been dreaming of you all day! "I understand that I am just a substitute." I'm glad that you understand Bob but there could never be a substitute!
Oct. 23 - Nov. 22 (cont.) - See pathetic side of life. No desire to travel or encounter adventure. Not good bosses but very original in own work. Especially fond of poetry and often write it. Resolute and unflinching. Form strong attachments. John - my first thought in the morning and my last at night! Last evening I was happy that I didn't write one word in my diary about my new assistant. Yes "Peb" (?) asked me to teach Garret Kell (?) the work I am doing now in the office. Garret is the son of the Company's Assistant Secretary. He is a "theological" student and a former classmate of Brother's.
Yes, I worked until 10 o'clock tonight. "9 to 3" a regular laughing stock! This morning I could hardly work for thinking of you and what was to come this evening. At noon time when you stopped me, I knew your manner was entirely different from last Wednesday and the Sunday before! When you first came in tonight I knew that you were mine again. You took my hand; held me so close to you. "You are leaving already? Is it true? You will enjoy your vacation at B.H. (?) alone " - if you can? "And don't forget to write" were your last words. What makes you think I am wonderful? This has been one of the happiest, luckiest days of my life.
Oct. 23 - Nov. 22 (cont.) - Cannot be coaxed. Not easily frightened. Are dignified, quiet and of powerful will. Very skillful with hands, feel deeply in spite of cold and unsympathetic exterior. Susceptible to flattery. Fond of sport and outdoor life. Truest companions are Aquarius, Pisces and Capricornus. "You wish the time were now? And I . . . You would have blushed yourself to death to own so much a year ago - "* I have learned a great deal in the past year. This time last June, I hardly knew you! Last month I could have and did "own so much" but now it all seems over. In one short year, I graduated from school, went to work in an office, "met" you - a complete romance - broken! My life has been a perfect story. Perhaps it will end "happily ever after" as all good stories do. But many beautiful lives have ended tragically.
Lines from poem "Goodnight" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Any old June night, and if it's moonlight." Yes all but you! And I have no right to be thinking of you who are probably saying sweet nothings to some of the girls of A. B. (?). But still, last Sat. Ed and I walked about the club grounds. He said that we had all but the moonlight! What a romantic old fool I am. The moonlight almost sets me crazy and the thought of you being without a thought of me - almost kills me!
YOUR FORTUNE BY THE STARS - X: Oct. 23- Nov 22 - Sign is Scorpio, Mars your planet. Astral colors, black and golden brown. Emotional, creative, phlegmatic, inclined to live within themselves, great self-control, well balanced minds. Easily offended and hard to forgive offenses. Someone said that true happiness consists of “something to do, something to love, and something to hope for!” I have something to do, someone to love and I am hoping for someone to love me! But am I happy? Happier than I was yesterday because I have made myself admit that I do care! Today is the first time for a week that I have touched your ring to my lips. Will you ever do it again? Monday, either our “friendship” will end or we will begin all over again before you go on your vacation!
I dreamed of you all last night, so it seemed. But it is said that dreams turn out in opposites. I dreamed that you met me on the street, kissed me and also that you gave me a beautiful diamond ring. All morning I was miserable, ill with a “sick headache.” But should I let “it” bother me? Mother has tried to make me see “things” in a different light! Perhaps you don’t understand my coolness anymore than I understand yours. Perhaps you have longed for me as much as I have longed for you.
Sept. 23 – Oct. 23 (cont.) – They are sober, slow but sure, unswerving, practical, far-sighted. Care little for poetry, art or music except in a dollar and cents way. Ambitious and quick to recover from defeat. Too inclined to take chances. Talk fast, are magnetic, reckless. Most congenial companions are Capricorns, Aquarius, and Pisces. I have got to live without you. I don’t want you! I hate you! Too late to come in 11:00 PM. Remember the time you came in at 5 mins to 1 o’clock to stay until one? Do I hate you? Is it because I love you? It can’t be but tonight when you touched my arm I was thrilled and longed to be close in your arms! But now it is over! This will be the first night I have slept without your ring! God! I am unhappy! Things that are lovely never die but pass into other loveliness. At least the moments with you that were happiness for me have now passed into lovely dreams.
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ContextThis is the journal of Virginia Lee Scott, my grandmother, written when she was seventeen and first dating my grandfather, John Arnold Wilson. It's a dairy published by Media Drug Stores and includes space for two entries per day, with facts about the era printed at the bottom, which I have included in italics. Following, 1928, is the journal of John Arnold Wilson, my grandfather, at age nineteen and in love with my grandmother, followed by my grandmother's journal in 1931. Archives
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