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To: DailyCandy
From: [Name withheld to protect the innocent]
Subject: [Your story on] the talking clock

My story: In the 1950s, I was in college and thought that I could rig my clock radio to play a record. Then I thought I would like a personal recording of a nice feminine voice saying, “Russell, get up.”

I went to a musical and the lead had just the right voice. I tracked her down on campus and asked for a date without telling her my plans. She was Jewish and her family would not let her date a non-Jew.

I finally got her to go out. The restaurant had one of those booths where you could record. I told her what I wanted and she was freaked and went running for a cab screaming that her mother was right.

Oh, reader, you needed a girl with a good sense of humor.

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