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Impossible: Only the Impossible Happens:
"When we were living in Forest Hills, at 6 Jurns Street, once Shoji was staying in the apartment when Anne and I were away. We had disconnected the icebox and put the furniture in the middle of the room for the walls to be painted. The day before Anne and I were due back from New Orleans, Shoji plugged the old GE- with the coils on the top- back in, and left. The next day we were stopped by a Louisiana trooper as Bill Parkhurst had called the police to get word to us that our apartment had had a big fire. The icebox caught on fire and fell into the apartment below; the rest of the apartment was in fair shape with smoke damage to my papers, but the insurance company granted a total loss. The people down stairs always complained anyway and banged on the ceiling whenever I worked late.
“Months later I was visiting Allegra in Los Angeles and went to Bullock’s to get her a nice watch for christmas. I told the sales clerk-- a very nice little lady-- to call the floor manager to approve my check. She said she could approve the check, but I answered that she didn’t understand; this check was from out of town, from Forest Hills, Long Island. She said why she and her husband lived in Forest Hills for years, but the only reason they left and came to the west coast was the awful people”
