Shoebag (13 page)

Remind me not to find you so attractive

Remind me that the world is full of men

Portrait of Meaker, drawn by Louise Fitzhugh from a baby picture.

Seven-year-old Meaker, her mother, and her brother Ellis in Auburn, New York.

Meaker (front left) with her mother, her brother Ellis, her father, and several other Meakers at the home of British relatives in Brighton in 1938.

Meaker as a girl scout in Auburn in 1939.

Meaker, age seventeen, with her first car, a 1937 LaSalle convertible with a rumble seat, and a sailor from Sampson Naval Base. The bane of her parents’ existences—both the base and the sailors.

Meaker and Jim Sears at a fraternity dance in Missouri in 1948.

Meaker with Irving the dog in East Hampton, New York, in 1976.

Meaker (front), with close friend and author Tom Baird and Barbara Dicks of Harper & Row in 1980.

Portrait of Meaker at age sixty-two.

Meaker with Tom Baird in 1989.

Meaker holding Gerbils the dog, next to ER the Siamese cat, in East Hampton in 1989.

Meaker and neighbor John “Trip” Timmerman in East Hampton in December 1991.

Meaker, her brother Charles, and her grandniece Tracy Hovelin in August 1999.

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