Jacquie sent this comment about living in New York in an apartment on 89th St.

  Did he ever tell you the cockroach story?  We used to sleep on the floor on Japanese tatami mats in that funky apartment on 89th street (you'll recall he was stationed in Japan and had adopted some of their ways - for awhile).  When we realized that the feisty New York cockroaches refused to stay off the tatami mats we got a bed.  Problem solved.  You may recall that the first floor of that apartment building had a Greek diner, hence more than the usual number of roaches.  Ick.