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(At 8:40 PM. Jane left for the corner grocery to get a pack of cigarettes. Actually she had to hurry for the store is several blocks away. It was also raining. Once again Jane had been trying to give up cigarettes; this time the struggle lasted but a day or so, and ended in tears after supper this evening. It appeared to be a panic reaction of some kind, and had happened before.

(Jane was back from the store at 8:55. She said she didn’t know what kind of a session we would have, yet by 8:58 she reported that she could “feel him.” The session actually began at 9:02, and without the board.)

(“Did you make the trip to the store with Jane tonight?”)

(“Was Jane ever a smoker in a previous life?”)

(Break at 9:32. Jane was fairly dissociated yet she was still aware of the subject matter above. She usually is, she said. Throughout this session she talked in a voice slightly stronger than normal, and paced at a slow even rate. Her eyes were dark, as usual. Resume at 9:36.)

(“Why did Jane have her miscarriage?”)

(Break at 10:02. During the above delivery Jane was in her usual state of dissociation. It was a very peaceful session. Resume at 10:07, Jane dictating.)

(Once again, as the question of the Jews came to my mind, Jane began to immediately discuss it as she had seemed to somehow pick up my unspoken questions quite often recently.

(Break at 10:32. Jane was somewhat dissociated as usual. Resume at 10:35.)

(Upon going to work at the gallery yesterday noon, Jane saw more dead starlings scattered on the lawns. This so incensed her that she telephoned the police. After talking to two different desk sergeants she was referred to the police chief. The chief said she was the only complainant the police had had; other callers had given the police their addresses and asked them to destroy the birds on their own properties.

(Jane also sent two more poems on the subject to the newspaper. The first poem she sent in has been scheduled for publication. The people at the newspaper were quite surprised to learn the police were shooting birds. They said they would check into it.)

(Again, in the sentence above, Jane answered my unspoken question.

(Break at 11:02. Jane was dissociated as usual. During break I puzzled over what Seth meant by saying I had done well, since I thought it a rather routine week. And we discussed Miss Callahan’s condition—we had heard from her relatives that it was deteriorating—and wondered if Seth might mention her. Resume at 11:06.)

(According to a relative of Miss Callahan’s that Jane saw this morning, March 6, yesterday Miss Callahan talked quite coherently of the “lovely walks” she had been taking lately with her two brothers, both of whom are dead. At the same time the relative did not seem to feel that Miss Callahan recognized her, or at least not fully.)

(Break at 11:29. Jane had some dissociation. Resume at 11:33.)