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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Paul Bryan's Journal
February 1965
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Top Ten Episodes Paul Bryan's Journal (& Chronology of Events)
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Chronology of Events
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San Francisco,
Monday, February 22
Who'd have thought it? I walked into Gump's today and bought an engagement ring. Didn't even have the idea in my mind this morning ….. I was actually shopping for a pair of shoes …. and something took me over. But it really isn't a surprise. I knew from the day I met Kate that there couldn't be anyone else for me.
But all this time we've been together, that nagging thought of her possibly returning to Armand has held me back. Better a broken romance than a shattered marriage, I kept saying to myself. But it is crazy to wait around for something that might never happen.
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San Francisco,
Tuesday, February 23
!!!!!!!!!!!!! She said yes!!!!!!!!!
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Paul Bryan proposes to art historian and gallery owner Kate Pierce.
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San Francisco,
Wednesday, February 24
Going to have to learn to stop grinning at everyone I meet. It's strange, I felt so contented all these years, and would have called myself a happy man. Interesting work, career on the move, warm relationships. Maybe nothing that lasted, but good while they did. How I feel now tells me my life must have been going nowhere.
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San Francisco,
Thursday, February 25
Since Kate is teaching her class at Cal this evening, I went to Dwight's to go over the program he's put together for me, and to let him know that I might be out of the country for a couple months at the end of the Spring.
He'd put together a comprehensive schedule of speaking engagements which he'd be able to arrange for me, and said that each one would be an important step towards my getting the party's nomination for Attorney General next year. While he frowned at the idea that I could be unavailable for two months, he said that the connection to the Pierce family would be worth an incalculable number of talks - not to mention what an asset Katie would be.
Dwight is clearly looking towards the Governor's mansion, but I'm still just thinking about the nomination in June. I can't believe what a support and encouragement this man has been to me, and he added to that tonight with a massive financial pledge, then outlined his notes about fund raising, meeting and greeting etc.
We reminisced for a while about his terms as Mayor, then he brought out more papers, and dazzled me with the thoroughness of the campaign he was planning.
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Carmel,
Friday - Saturday, February 26 - 27
My perception of time has become completely skewed. Thursday not seeing Kate seemed like an eternity …. And sitting by the fire with her here, it's felt like we'd been married all our lives, so settled in one another's company.
We both brought work with us to do this weekend, but I think that was overoptimistic. I kept looking at Kate's reference books, and then we'd keep adding must places to visit on the honeymoon.
Drove over to Almeria to share the news with my aunt. She was thrilled that we're planning to go to Sicily, and reminisced about the trip she and my mother made there in 1955, then brought out names and addresses of people to contact.
When I asked her if she missed Vabocelli, she shook her head immediately, and said that since the day my grandfather had brought her over to join the family in California, she'd felt perfectly at home in Almeria. We spoke of Nonno then, and she told me that when they were growing up, he never stopped talking about his dream to go to America.
Alma looked a little thin, but said that she's been well, and we promised to visit again soon.
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San Francisco,
Sunday, February 28
On her way back to college, Kate's sister Molly stopped by just as we were about to leave Carmel. With her was that idiot who was in law school with me - Alex Ryder. Kate was equally dismayed to see Molly with him. Maybe he was just giving her a ride, but what oppressive company he ids - even for a half hour.
The stories Kate has regaled me with about all the scrapes Molly has gotten into over the years don't surprise me. Such a flighty girl. But the whole family is hoping she'll graduate in June, and finally get on a steady path.
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