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A departing speaker praises Mimsie for cooking and going to work regardless of circumstances.

The speaker calls those habits qualities he will never have, then smiles as though he means the compliment.

Under the typed title 'Mimsie', a short exchange at a moment of 'Leaving' has one speaker say 'There are two things in the world that you are / that I will never be', naming them as 'A Good cook, and somebody who get's up in the morning / and goes to work, no matter what.' The page closes with 'He smiled like he ment it.'

The page is a compact dialogue scene, built on a question and answer that turns a parting line into a compliment about ordinary steadiness. The last line leaves the sincerity open, since 'like he ment it' reports only how the smile looked. The source spellings 'get's' and 'ment' and the capital in 'Good' keep the draft's typed voice.