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Telegram to Florence from Tripoli, Summer 1952

DEEPEST LOVE ,

DISREGARD EARLIER TELEGRAM STOP

LATIF IS A MALE NAME STOP REGRET MISLEADING YOU AND REGRET 10 OF MY 18 YEARS OF DRINK STOP

HEAT HERE HAS BAKED ME TO A DIFFERENT COLOR , AT LEAST MY HAIR IS BLACK AGAIN , STILL I GUESS I DO NOT HOPE AS WELL AS THE REST STOP

“REST STOP ” HA HA STOP

MAYBE I SHOULD TAKE A CRACK AT DOING THINGS THE WAY DON MIGUEL DOES THINGS STOP

I REGRET THAT TOO STOP

THIS IS BECOMING A COSTLY APOLOGY STOP

WILL BE IN PARIS SOON , TRY COFFEE , UNDERSTAND THAT DARK IS THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA THERE STOP

I AM , AS ALWAYS , YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT &C STOP

ENZO STOP

PS STILL DYING LAUGHING STOP

(Hand-written in ink along the bottom: “Caffeine-free Diet Coke, Lean Cuisine spag., Lean Cuisine lemon chicken, produce, smile when you pay!”)

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