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 \nBy William R.Demastus  \nChampagnewithHemingway  \nBy William R.Demastus  \n\"The best way to find out ifyou can trust somebodyis to trust them.\"—Ernest Hemingway  \nrnest Hemingway was born into a family of 5sisters and a brother,dominated by a mother who felt sheshould have been singing at the metropolitan opera living abetter life.Instead she married a doctor whom she never letforget,that it was her parents that gave them the house theylived in.  \nShe dressed Ernest in girls clothing/dresses.He and hissister were “twins”and let his hair grow long with goldencurls until he was 5 years old nearing 6.When she wouldtake the children out in the baby carriage,neighbors used tocomment on how “cute”little Ernest was.They all thoughthe was a \"girl.\"All social behavioral scientists will agreethat children's characters and personalities are usuallyformed in the first 5 years.  \nErnest use to tear off the clothes she chose for him ashe began rebelling at 4.His father,the doctor,built a cabinway out back in the woods as his retreat.Little Ernest oftenjoined him,where he learned to hunt and fish.  \nErnest always told people that he “hated”his mother.When he was 6'’2 and in high school his mother insisted he  \nlearn to play the cello —to give him \"culture.\"Finally,toescape his home life he volunteered for the American RedCross and was sent to Italy,on the Italian Front duringWorld War I as an ambulance driver.  \nHe suffered shrapnel wounds to his legs,and after 4months in the hospital,was sent home a decorated war heroat 18.Back in high school he walked about school using anelaborate antique cane to ease his limp.Wearing the longpurple cape of the Cabernari and a felt alpine cap with thelong pheasant feather trailing.He was a tall,handsome,muscular young man.He was “gorgeous”and all the girlswere crazy about him.Yet he spent most of his time with ayoung,very boyish 14 year old girl in the woods and at thelake.She was his pal.They were buddies.  \nThen Hadley Richardson,a high school class mate ofhis,fellmadly in love with him and put the “move on him.”Hadley was 26,eight years older,not wanting to be an oldmaid,which was not far away.  \nMeanwhile,Ernest had moved back into his mother'shouse.One day his mother said \"you have to leave.\"Shekicked him out.He found a pad to crash with a fellowstudent.  \nBut it was Hadley who supplied his magic carpet.\"Letsget married.\"Ernest wanted to go to Rome,but Hadley hada family friend,Sherwood Anderson,who had lived in  \nParis,He suggested Paris as cheaper and intellectually morestimulating.Anderson then went ahead and wrote a personalletter of introduction \"to all of his friends.\"He had been afixture in Stein's Salon Sundays.  \nA partial list was:  \nGertrude SteinFord Maddox Ford  \nF.Scott FitzgeraldPicasso and Juan GrisJohn Dos PassosJames JoyceJane BeachVirgina WolfEzra Pound and Joan Miró  \n*      *      *      *      *  \nGlad to see her marry,Hadley's well-off parents set up a“dowry”—enough so that she could pay all the expensesrequired to “live”in Paris—work-free Ernest would then beable to “write”while Hadley took care of the house.  \nErnest could then explore and roam Paris as he becamea \"favorite\"of Stein and Toklas.And Paris.  \nWhen his son was born,they became “Godfathers”tothe son,and when EH wanted to go out socially,Stein wouldbabysit.In the summer 1950,I was enrolled at WashingtonState College,in Pullman,Washington.Taking a course inAmerican Literature.  \nI had been assigned the subject of Ernest Hemingwayfor my term paper.Therefore,I went to the library and I readeverything that he had ever written.  \nMy study reached a conclusion about him and hisPsyche,(the basis for his writing)and formed the basis formy Thesis about him.Then it occurred to me that aperson-to-person discussion and a personal visit would clar-ify my thinking.So I went to my Professors and suggested Igo see 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