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tested once. “Doesn’t it bug you being taken care of like — like you take care of me?” “Naw,” he said, “they like to do it. Makes them feel useful or something. Don’t bother them about it, Jo-Jo, hear?” “Who me? I’m no one but your sometimes-steady.” They went along like that for a year and a half. Once, the strain grew so great that they quarreled seriously. The breakup lasted four months. Then someone told Bobby that Jo-Ann missed him. The next day he was on the phone. “What brings you back?” Jo-Ann asked him, playing it cool. “Heard you missed me.” “You idiot,” she said, between laughing and crying. “Did you think I wouldn’t? Didn’t you miss me?” “Of course I did,” he said. “But I thought maybe you were getting along all right without me. I thought — maybe you were better off. I didn’t know JoJo. But . . . but were you? “How could I be?” she asked. “How could I be?” Now it’s her problem, too So now she had the answer to all the puzzles. Now all the pieces fell into place. But there was no joy in it. Now another question had taken their place. The biggest of all. The one Bobby had been struggling with alone all this time. Now it was her problem, too. Didn’t she inherit it tonight? “You see? I don’t know if I’ve got the right to marry,” he’d said. “Oh, I’m sure by now you really love me, Jo-Jo; otherwise I wouldn’t have let you in on the heart bit. But everything I’ve got, I’ve got to give to my career. It isn’t like I’ve made enough to retire on. And even if I had, life wouldn’t be worth living, you know? So I’ve got to work. But the docs tell me I’ve got just so much strength and no more. I don’t know if I can take on a marriage, too. Unless it’s some kind of cheat, the way our engagement has been a kind of cheat. Half-way stuff. You think I didn’t know? And what would we do about kids? I can’t cheat you out of having babies, Jo-Jo. But how can I cheat them, maybe, of having a father? I don’t know if it’s fair to you, or to them. I want to make a life with you. Honey. But I don’t know if I can! I’ve always had the feeling I wasn’t going to be given much time. I’ve always had the feeling I had to hurrv.” Outside her room, the sky was beginning to lighten. Jo-Ann Campbell lay on her bed and watched the dawn begin. In an hour or so, it would be day. All across the city, people would stir and begin to live again. Her parents would get up and gently, tactfully, question her about what had happened last night. She would have to tell them something. They had a right to ask. They were her parents and they were concerned. But how could she tell them? The day would begin, and sometime during it, Bobby Darin would call her, and she would speak to him. But what would she say? “I love you, Bobby. That’s all that matters. Let’s be together for whatever time we have. Let’s have that at least. Please Bobby. . . .” That would be the easy thing to say. That was what she wanted to say. But had she the right to say it? Had she the right to bring upon her parents the anguish they would surely feel? Had she the right to add the strain of responsibility, work, time, guilt, upon the man she loved? The right to put another load on his limited strength? Had she the right to do all this? “Dear God,” Jo-Ann Campbell thought, watching the day begin, “help me to decide. Help Bobby and me to know what we should do. . . .” The End HEAR BOBBY SING ON THE ATCO LABEL. JO-ANN SINGS FOR ABC-PAR. BOBBY’S IN COL.’s “PEPE.” EXCLUSIVE STORIES ABOUT . . . THE HOLLYWOOD YEAR The wonderful new 1960 PHOTOPLAY ANNUAL is now available. Here is Hollywood’s most exciting book of the year. Here are hundreds of thrilling pictures, as well as exclusive stories about everybody of importance in the movie world. ON THE RECORD — Pages and pages of pictures and stories of the big news events of Hollywood. The marriages. divorces, separations, reconciliations, births and deaths. BIG CLICK — Pictures as well as a thumbnail description of — Edd Byrnes • Annette Funicello • Pat Boone • Debbie Reynolds • Fabian • Tuesday Weld • Rick Nelson • Sandra Dee • .lames Darren • David Nelson • Millie Perkins • Dean Stockwell • Carol Lynley. GOOGHULUBH Continued, from page 45 slip aside. “How about ‘Jailhouse Rock’?” he cut in. “You’re too young,” Frankie answered, laughing. “Come on, wise guy, we’ll burp you, and then it’s nighty-night for you.” Stretched out on the bathinette, Tommy made a face. “Ah, gosh, Uncle Frankie, cut out the baby talk, will ya, huh? And don’t forget to change my diaper.” Frankie decided not to argue. He lifted Tommy up and turned him on his back. But when he turned him on his stomach to powder him, Tommy raised his head and said: “A little to the left, please . . . Now, a little to the right . . . That’s it, just . . . ahhhh . . .” When he had finished, Frankie picked him up and held him close. “There, now,” he said, “that’s better.” Then, leaning the baby against his shoulder, he began to pace around the room, gently rocking him in his arms. “Boy,” Frankie said, nuzzling his mouth against Tommy’s ear. “I certainly never expected a night like this. I thought I’d go nuts babysitting for Sis. But you know, you’re some kid.” Then he added laughingly, “I guess you take after your uncle! “By the way, where’d you learn to talk like that? Hey, I’m talking to you, why don’t you answer?” Lifting the baby gently away from his shoulder, he noticed Tommy was fast asleep. Tiptoeing to the crib, Frankie laid the baby down, covering him with a soft blue blanket. Then he just stood there for a minute, looking down at Tommy with an expression of complete bewilderment. Suddenly he heard a key turn in the door. “They’re home!” he cried, so loud that Tommy opened his eyes again. Excitedly, Frankie picked him up and went to break the news to his sister Theresa and her husband, Tom, Sr. They’d been married a year in May, yet they came in the door holding hands like a boy and a girl on a date. “Guess what! He can talk! Go ahead, kid,” Frankie urged. “Say something.” “Googhulubh . . .” said Tommy. Theresa looked at Tom. Tom looked at Theresa. And Frankie just stood there with his mouth open, looking at all three of them. A wise, understanding smile played at the corners of Theresa’s mouth. “When big boys get along so great with little boys,” she began softly, “there’s only one explanation. I think maybe it’s time you settled down,” she said gently as she kissed Frankie goodnight, “and had a baby of your own.” “You kill me,” Frankie told her, but his hand trembled on her shoulder as he added, “Now what would I want to go and do a thing like that for?” The End WATCH FOR FRANKIE IN U.A.’s “THE ALAMO.” HEAR HIM SING ON THE CHANCELLOR LABEL. 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