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She’s young, she’s beautiful and she
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lives alone. And she knows how to have
fun — and stand clear of gossip
By MARILYN MONROE
| like the life of a bachelor girl — including its temptations. It’s a lot better life than the one I used to have. I can remember when I was practically a nonentity. What else is a girl who doesn’t know much about her background?
Everyone used to tell me what to do and how to do it, with me afraid of myself, always trying to please someone' else.
So I find it pleasant now to come and go as I wish, to do what I want to do when I want to do it. However, I wouldn’t say the life of a bachelor girl is all roses. There is, for one thing, the matter of loneliness. . . .
Loneliness offers temptatidns. Girls who live alone can become so tired waiting for someone to ask them out that they look anywhere for excitement, accept almost any kind of date, go on any kind of party — just to go. They come to settle for too little, to take the easy road instead of growing more mature and becoming stronger. To settle for too little can lead to a wrong marriage, to promiscuousness, to self-deceit. I’ve managed to avoid this danger because my work and other interests keep me mentally and physically occupied. Recently, my days have begirn at six in the morning. It’s been seven when I got home to have dinner, study my lines and then work on my school lessons. I’m not supposed to ( Continued on page 95)
“If you lead a man on, don’t expect him to stop when you put up the no-go sign,” says Marilyn
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