George and Mary Frances tried everything to get Travis out of her room and back onto the beach, but she remained obdurately under the covers. She was lost in the thickets of her first unrequited obsession and had no need for the world of outside things. Although in time she would become used to this pattern of an idealized infatuation followed by an intense loathing... ...the first time out her only solace was the electronic ear of her micro-cassette recorder.

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