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In the summer I would walk along the river to and over the Arlington Memorial Bridge and past the Lincoln Memorial. Otherwise I would take the bus. In late spring of that year the company bought a half dozen bicycles which could be checked out by personnel like library books. I got in the habit of signing out a bike everyday and riding it into the city. That was how I met MaryJ who became my girl friend and we rented a room together. She was coming out of the Washington Monument and I started riding around and around her. Very uncharacteristic of me. Must have been something about her.
I arrived DC around the first of November and my time between then and Christmas was fairly ho-hum, when I got leave to go home for the holidays. Whom also went home for Christmas. When he got back he was different. It was rumored he was from an old-line
mostly depleted Virginia family, and someone even suggested he was related to Daniel Whom.
If there was one singular subject of gossip around the base it was Whom, and he seemed to be universally reviled. Everybody talked about him and everybody expressed and extreme dislike for him, if not hatred. Rumors about Whom were rampant. Personally I didn't pay much attention. I lived on the other side of the wall from him and he was my superior, but he worked in the general office and I in my own, and I disappeared off post early in the afternoon and did not come back 'till around eight or nine in the evening. I did not see much of him.
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