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she got so sick that she fainted on the little bus we were on and I had to nurse her all day but that didn't improve her disposition any. Things came to a head one night in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. In the hotel room I had rinsed out a few things and hung them over one of the open windows to dry and had arranged the window so that any breeze that might sneak in (it was a warm night) would blow on me because she didn't like drafts at night. Then I went in to take a shower and get into my pajamas. When I came out, she had taken my clothes down and closed the window and was back in bed. I said that I refused to sleep in a closed room on a hot night and turned and reopened the windows. I had my back to her, doing it and didn't hear her get out of bed. Suddenly she jumped me, pushing me down on the bed and in the process tore the right shoulder strap of my pajamas, exposing my breast. This didn't surprise her of course. Remember she was the one to whom I had made a point of showing them in Tahiti five years before. But the attack activated some defense reflexes more appropriate to Charles than to Virginia and I twisted around, grabbed her wrist and bent it over in what is a very controlling hold since any struggle gives the holder a chance to bend the wrist further in a very painful way. So even though she was a women's physical education teacher and about half my age, she found herself helpless, much to her surprise. Needless to say we agreed to leave the window open that night before I released her. I quickly concluded that Outer Mongolia was really not the place for Virginia's true sex to be revealed so I didn't want the struggle to get any more personal or it might have been. Naturally, that was the end. of any realtionship with her even though we had to continue as roommates back in Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, on the train to Nahodka and the boat to Yokohama. But I had made arrangements to pay the single difference once we got to Japan and had a peaceful week thereafter.

I came back by way of Guam, Truk, Ponape, Hawaii and home. It was truly a round the world trip giving me a lot perspective about a lot of other people and places and especially about the people of the USSR. Both the country and the people were very interesting and friendly and I enjoyed it. I didn't find so much wrong with the country as I had been led to believe and was particularly impressed by the fact that there is NO LITTER in the cities and it is safe for a woman to be out alone in the middle of the night. While there are always some people who live outside the law in any country, there are very few in Russia. It is a crime to be unemployed, can you believe it? And while

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