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====Literary Mentor====<br />
<poem><br />
Cousin Truman<br />
had finished one year at Tulsa U<br />
when he came to California<br />
on a working vacation<br />
<br />
To tell the truth<br />
he picked very few grapes<br />
That part didn't matter:<br />
<br />
He filled the hours<br />
between hot sandy rows<br />
with stories<br />
that lit my teen-age mind<br />
<br />
"Saint X"<br />
he declared one day<br />
"What a writer<br />
what a life he led<br />
flying the mail between<br />
Dakar and Algiers<br />
in those flimsy crates"<br />
and he quoted from<br />
''Wind Sand and Stars''<br />
<br />
Remembering the book<br />
he had become emotionally lost<br />
in the Sahara Desert<br />
and told me dreamily<br />
<br />
"Cousin you're a girl<br />
but you have to read this stuff<br />
for yourself<br />
try to broaden your mind"<br />
</poem><br />
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====Notes====<br />
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