Chapter 12
Ida Reneson finished drinking the coffee and smacked her lips at the nectar taste which all her food had lately. She wondered if that was because she wanted things to be perfect, ideal, as her romance with Maurie was ideal.
A record player at the department store next door sent loud rock-and-roll music into the street. Ida eased past the cash register in Bill's luncheonette. She moved out to the sidewalk, wishing life could have no end, plotting her future with an intelligence far beyond her years.
She would be a wife and perhaps raise children as well as doing social work so her degree from Milltown U. would have significance. Maurie would be the husband.
Automobile horns honked on the avenue as she strolled northward. She thought of the various boys with whom she had en
