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Mrs. Roosevelt imagines her son clean-shaven
Description
Mrs. Archibald Roosevelt, who came to him once a month and has just been killed in a car accident, was ashamed of her son's beard grown in Egypt; Neville told her to kiss him smooth-skinned in imagination, and he later read in the Monday paper of the son's wedding, clean-shaven — but she credited the girl he married, not the imaginal act.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1965 (possible)
- before 4 September 1965
Told
4 September 1965
(doubtful)
Sources
- Source: Order Your Conversations Aright ¶17 (So, I said, “Now, Mrs. Roosevelt, you know what a kiss of your son would be like without the beard, don’t you?” “Oh, yes,” she said. “Well, kiss him and he doesn’t have a beard. Put your arms around him, and kiss your son, and see the nice, smooth skin a…)