Heart Line

March, 1970

The Phone woke me up in the middle of the night-and there was this anonymous caller on the other end calling me dirty names.So I warmly and quietly said to him: "I Love You."And with a catch in his voice, he replied: "Thanks. I needed that."And then he said: "All my life all I ever got from women was rejection, emasculation and indifference --"Can you understand the hope it gives a man when he dials a blind number in the middle of the night and finds a stranger who...