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And then there had been that night weeks after the funeral was over. Liz had phoned ’way after midnight. She’d had a terrible nightmare. She needed help. Eddie had slipped on a shirt, slacks and shoes and rushed over to her house. Liz was trembling and white. She had been working hard on “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Throwing herself into work had helped. But sometimes, especially at night, the absence of Mike, the loss of Mike, was unbearable. Liz talked and Eddie listened. She was talking; that was the main thing. All the pain that had been bottled up was pouring out. For hours, it seemed, she talked and she wept. All about Mike. Their life together. Their love for each other. How Mike had dashed around buying baby clothes for Liza in Paris. How he had bought out entire stores, or so it seemed when package after package after package addressed to Miss Liza Todd began to arrive at the hotel where they were staying. How the first dress Liza ever wore had been a dream. When she outgrew it, Mike — sentimental fool — had it framed and hung it on their bedroom wall. Gradually, Liz had run out of things to say. Sleepily, she said good night to Eddie and went up to her room, he hoped for her first night’s rest in weeks. On his way home Eddie Fisher said a silent prayer: “Keep our family safe and sound. Keep us together.” . . And Debbie and Eddie are living that prayer every day. They don’t plan to settle immediately in New York. No, in midsummer, Eddie’s appendix permitting, they’re going to Europe as kind of unofficial American ambassadors to the Brussels International Fair. So on many an evening they pore over maps, figuring out where they’ll go and what they’ll see after their visit to the Fair is completed. They plan to visit friends in Italy and France and England. But Europe, too, is a place they associate fondly with Mike and Liz. For it was just last summer that Eddie and Debbie stayed a week at the Todds’ luxurious estate, the Villa Fiorentina, on the French Riviera. It had been swell being together and in one place for seven whole days. For Eddie had been moving all over Europe, signing up acts for his TV show, and Debbie had seen little of him. What they learned from Liz and Mike at the Villa was that it was possible to say No to work, No to pressure, No to other people’s demands on your time and energy, and just drift for a time. . . Memory . . . For the Fishers the impressive feature of the Villa wasn’t the private dock on the Mediterranean, or the huge swimming pool, or the fabulous grounds, or the breathtaking view, or the magnificent building itself, or the luxurious Rolls Royce, in which Liz and Mike explored the surrounding countryside. Or even the large sun-room filled with Liz’s canaries, which knocked them for a loop. (“A room full of song,” Mike called it. And he was right.) The most important part of their stay was the wonderful closeness the four of them had felt for each other. For a week Eddie and Debbie swam and water-skied, cruised about on one of Mike’s fast boats, sunned, loafed, and had a grand time. Liz took it easy — her pregnancy was well along — but Mike frolicked and frisked about with his guests. Motherhood seemed to be catching, however, for it was at the Villa Fiorentina that Debbie first suspected that she, too, was going to have another child. The Todds and the Fishers went to the races in Paris together (they won), and Eddie and Debbie were among the 2,500 “intimate” friends that Mike and Liz in BE A NURSE! This is the home study course that can change your whole life! THE FIELD OF PRACTICAL NURSING OFFERS UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITIES CO both women and men for careers as Practical Nurses, Nurse's Aides, Nurse-Companions, Doctor’s Office Nurses, Infant Nurses, and as Hospital Attendants. HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION NOT REQUIRED. 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