"I do love this dress", Mary told us.
"I fits you, dear", Alison approved, as Mary paid $US20.00 for it.
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"John, are you married?".
"No, I am single. Andy, my ex, is too busy writing a novel, to be with me. We were together two years. But I want to be freed from the mundane".
"Mary and I met three years ago. She is an artist; I am a director".
"Movies".
"Yes, and we do attend the best parties. I do feel enlightened by them. The conservativeness is eating away at us; the conservativeness is destroying us".
"Well, let's break free".
And Alison and Mary became the first true Artist friends I'd met, as I travelled down the busy New York streets...And begun my journey of healing.
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The Artists A Beatnik novel
HumorRobert Helliger. 11 November, 2013. All Rights Reserved. Author's note: This novel was formerly called 'The Intellectuals'. But the last word was too long, so I changed it to 'Artists'. In New York, 1954, a group of artists become Beatniks...And di...
