Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 1/5/11: I once stood up the most beautiful girl in the world.

Jacob Lawrence, "Letter from Home" (1947) — Jacob Lawrence, *Letter from Home* (1947)

January 5, 2011:

I once stood up the most beautiful girl in the world. My college fantasy. She waited all lunch break for me on the corner. At that time in life I was so distressed that I completely forgot.

She'd been the center of my emotional and erotic universe for three years.

Bad timing.