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Does the name Polly Perkins
mean anything to you?
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Sounds familiar.
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She grew up in Virginia.
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A horse fanatic since childhood.
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Went to one of those horsey girls schools -
Garrison Forest, I think.
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Sometime in her senior year
she started feeling depressed.
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Now, partly it was finally
becoming disillusioned with horses.
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But there were some
real psychological problems too.
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That summer she got a job in Edgartown
and seemed completely recovered...
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except for a couple of idiosyncrasies -
she'd only dress in blue...
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and she wouldn't eat hamburgers
unless they were completely well done.
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Any hint of redness
and she'd send them back.
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Out of loyalty to her boyfriend
in Virginia...
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she'd only go on group dates,
never individual ones.
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Von Sloneker met her when
he came to Edgartown for the regatta.
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She showed
no interest in him at all initially...
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which makes sense because
he's a completely uninteresting guy.
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But for someone like Von Sloneker,
that's just inciting.
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So he swung into action
with a full rigamarole...
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about how desperately
in love he was with her...
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how she was the first girl
that ever made him feel that way...
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how it was their obligation
to themselves...
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to do everything they could
to live life to the fullest.
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Polly had, meanwhile, quit her summer job
and joined his boat for the rest of the cruise.
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He now completely ignored her.
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She, in turn,
became obsessed with him.
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Polly was a bit of a masochist
and prone to drink too much.
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Von Sloneker exploited this
to get her drunk...
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and had her-
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Do you know what
''pulling a train'' means?
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I don't think so.
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When Von Sloneker had gotten her
blind drunk one night...
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he talked her into pulling a train -
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him, Victor Lemley,
the other crew member.
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When she arrived at Wheaton for her first
semester, she was acting very strangely...