Separate Lives

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In the LR I introduced them to each other and Denise took a seat on the couch. I think Kootch remained on the floor in Japanese style. They both liked each other immediately and the conversation took a turn in the obvious direction. We both explained to Denise that we were quiet folks who minded our own business and that we were mystified by the charges in her letters. The subject soon got around to the activities of the folks upstairs, the gassing, the harrassment, the evesdropping, etc.

We explained to Denise that we were experiencing (thump) two different environments while living in the same environs - that we lived virtually separate lives (tap) and that this fact explained why it was so easy for Gerash and his surrogates to harrass me and not Kootch. We explained that we were actually together in the same room only about one hour a day and that we were actually awake together in the same apartment only about six hours a day (lots of 'agreement' taps from the queer Jew above as I write this) and that this fact of our lives made it easy for Gerash to harrass only one of us.