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My assignment at school was to show her around, to introduce her to some of the other boys and girls, stuff like that. We became good friends right away, and we were forever at one another’s house. I’d always go to AnnMargret’s house in the morning, to pick her up for school, and she was proverbially late. She’d gulp down her breakfast so hard I thought she was going to get an awful stomach ache. Then, after school, we’d go to my house. Usually, my mother had made a big batch of divinity during the day — that’s a certain kind of fudge — and Ann-Margret liked it so much she’d end up gulping quite a bit. She was a wonderful girl. You could talk to AnnMargret and you always had the feeling that she was listening to you — something a lot of people don’t seem to do. And the more I knew her, the more I loved her. All through high school — and later — we were the very best of friends. You could tell her the deepest and darkest secrets, and she would never, never tell anyone else. That was only one of the reasons for our friendship. Was she popular with the other kids? Yes. With lots of them. Lots. Except that something very strange happened at the beginning of our senior year, something I’ll never forget. Ann-Margret had been a cheerleader for three years before that, certainly the best and most conscientious the school had ever had. We, her good friends, all assumed that she would be chosen head cheerleader during her last year. But she wasn’t. A lot of the kids suddenly thought that she’d had too much. They were jealous of her, I think. Pretty jealous. And though Ann never indicated any disappointment over this. I think she was.” We talked next to Joannie Stremmel, now a business school student in Wilmette, who told us: “I guess I first saw Ann-Margret when we both were twelve. It was at a square dance given by the Boy Scouts. The first thing I noticed was her long hair. The second thing was that she really knew how to square dance. And the third was that the boys, all of them, took to her like a magnet. I know how jealous some of the girls in that room were that night. It must have been a year or so later when I really got to know Ann-Margret, however, and got to realize that she was one of the dearest and most wonderful people ever. What was so wonderful about her? Well, you could trust her with confidences, for instance — and that’s pretty rare. In other words, she was a true friend, and there aren’t too many of those left. A lot of people don’t realize this about Ann-Margret, but she’s a very sensitive girl. It would just kill her, I mean, for her to think she’s hurt somebody. I remember once, in high school — I’m a kind of funny person sometimes, too — and this one day I decided I didn’t like something she’d said or done and that I wasn’t going to talk to her anymore. Truthfully. I don’t even remember what it was that was bothering me. All I know is that I was bothered by something, and that I was going to let her know it. So we’d pass by one another in the hallway at school and I’d just keep walking. The same thing in the street. You know the kind of thing. Until finally, on the third day, it was just tearing Ann-Margret’s heart out and that afternoon at 3:30, after school, she went to my house and she said to my mother, ‘Something’s wrong between Joannie and me, Mrs. Stremmel, and I just don’t know what it is.’ She burst into tears then. She was still crying a few minutes later when I walked into the house. Before I had a chance to say anything, she said to me, ‘Joannie, I don’t know what I’ve done that’s so wrong, but whatever it is, I’m so sorry.’ And she threw her arms around me. And I felt so terrible. I learned something about AnnMargret that day. I learned that for her to feel that she had unintentionally hurt somebody else was the kind of thing that could give her the severest kind of pain. And, well, I felt like a heel that day.” “He's very polite ■ . ■" We spoke, last, to Holly Salvano, now a librarian in Wilmette, who told us: “I miss Ann-Margret. Because, very frankly, I miss the wonderful ball we used to have together. One summer, I remember, Ann-Margret’s father was on vacation and he invited me to go along with the family to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for a little while. We stayed at the Gateway Motel — well, the Olsons, Ann, me and twenty-eight college boys from Muskegon College stayed at that motel. Those boys were really something. They were always out of money and Ann-Margret and I used to feed them our stale cookies. For this they were appreciative. But they could never seem to get enough money together to ask us for a date. Strangely enough, we never double dated while in high school. I guess we just liked boys who didn’t know one another. Anyway, Ann-Margret dated more than I did. And I’d like to say that the people who say she dates so much and so indiscriminately don’t know a very important thing about her — they don’t know that she never thought anyone not good enough for her to go out with. I mean, she found a little bit about everybody to to like. So where another girl might turn down a date because ‘I don’t like his eyes’ 1 or ‘He never shines his shoes’ or ‘He only takes me to a movie’ — Ann-Margret would think ‘He’s very polite’ or ‘He has a nice sense of humor’ or, if he didn’t have a nice sense of humor, ‘Well, he certainly tries hard enough, and what more can you ask?’ And so she’d go out quite a bit here in Wilmette, just as she does now in Hollywood. And the reason for this is that number one: she likes people, and number two: I think it would break her heart to have to turn anybody down. You know, it peeves me a little to see some of the things some people write about her nowadays. I know that if you’re famous you can expect just about anything. But, still, it peeves me. Just as it used to back in high school, back when so many girls were so jealous of Ann-Margret they couldn’t see straight. Oh yes, there were more kids who were jealous of her than those who praised her. It’s ironic how some of the same girls who used to make all kinds of snide remarks about Ann-Margret — her long hair, her singing, her dancing, the fact that she was cheerleader for three years, the fact that she was so popular with the boys — now will come up to me