So I let my hair grow.
“You’re still the same,” Ike said. “Clothes don’t change the man. You’re still a serious person and she’s not. She’ll dump you.”
About this time, Ike encouraged me to revise a paper I wrote for a class and try to get it published. The paper compared modern literature to classical. It was a typical student paper but Ike thought it had promise and helped me beef it up.
Ike often submitted articles to The Adams County Pen, a local literary magazine. It attracted articles and poetry from writers and poets in the area. The quality and distribution had improved under the current editor, Harry Jackson.. Ike wrote and submitted to the Pen philosophical articles about science subjects like dark matter, about the negative effects of superstitions from religion to UFOs on society, and about the harmful effects of political parties. I say submitted because the editor, Harry Jackson, usually refused to print them in spite of Ike’s sitting in the Pen office and arguing his position.