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Corky thinks I'm crazy, natch.

Somebody sure is.

DoubleSpace.

I don't know quite how to put this without sounding
unduly melodramatic, but something, and I wish to
Christ I understood what, is happening to Corky.

He is changing.

LookтАФnothing wrong with change. And I'm not im-
plying this is something out of Invasion of the Body
Snatchers and there's some giant pod from outer space
beginning to inhabit his cranium.

And I'm also aware that he's functioning full out, his
career is rocketing right along and the broads he's all
the time picking up never seem to have any complaints
тАФwhy he always only sees them once though, I'll
never figure, it's like they fall off the face of the earth
or something, but his sex life isn't all that much my
business, probably he bores easyтАФand not only is he
doing good and screwing good, he's still as decent and

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thoughtful a guy I guess who's come down the pike of
late.

But goddammit, I see signs.

Example: the moodiness. Never used to be there.
And if he would get down on himself in the old days, I
could always zing him a little, force some kind of rise
out of him, snap him to. No more. '*

Now there's these long silences.

And he's closing oE. He used to be so open you*d
almost want to advise him to he a little. Well he's
lying now. And not just a little either.

My deepest fear? I think Cork/s cracking.

DoubleSpace.

Query: define for those of us with less intellectual
equipment than thee, oh wise one, "cracking."