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By the time we arrived, the party was already going strong.

A couple of the girls were laughing rather shrilly and I realized they were drinking.

My folks wouldn't dream of having alcohol in the house, so my first taste of it had been -- of course -- with Johnnie.

I hadn't liked it at first -- it was bitter and burning.

But when Johnnie disguised the taste with ginger ale, I enjoyed it.

Of course I enjoyed 'most anything if I did it with Johnnie.

Johnnie I suddenly realized he'd been totally out of my thoughts all evening.

But that was only natural, I decided ; ;

surely he was still resting snugly in my heart.