The Reward
My Friend Irma · December 1, 1947 · 29 min · 4,459 words
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Meepa Brothers Company, makers of Swan, the soap that gives you a wonderful new kind of suds presents. And Swan with my friend Irma. Starring Mary Wilson as Irma and Kathy Lewis as Jane. Friendship, friendship, with just a perfect friendship, with other friendships event forgot.
From theirs will still be hot. Why? I went to school, I studied French, Spanish, and Latin. I always thought Latin was the most difficult thing to understand.
Then I met my friend Irma. I don't get me wrong, because me, Jane, Stacy, I love that girl. It's only that she... Well for instance, the other night I was reading the evening paper and I said, Irma honey, imagine a man 84 years old just became a father for the first time.
And Irma said, 84 years, gee, what a long honeymoon. I'll take Latin every time. Right now, Erm is staring at the calendar. Her watch has stopped, so she's probably trying to figure out what time it is.
Erm, what's on your mind? Oh, Jane, honey, I just checked the calendar. And do you know today is one year since we started rooming together? A year already? See, I can't believe it. Let's see.
Oh, of course. The first of December. We both agreed to share this room. Mrs. O'Reilly said the rent would be $25 for the two of us. the two of us and you asked to please make it 30 because you didn't know what half of 25 was.
Wow, those days I was much younger didn't know as much as I do today. Yeah, yeah, honey. Yeah, you come a long way. Oh, thank you. But Jane, we just can't ignore an anniversary. We should have some kind of a celebration.
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