Cal has his date with Julie. Julie is an artist and he picks her up at her studio but she will not let him see her work. The couple goes out to dinner and he notices that she has the dirtiest fingernails that he's ever seen on a woman that beautiful, but he likes her and wonders what will happen next.
Back to the story about his family, it is now 1944 and Theodora Zizmo, called Tessie, is twenty years old. Prohibition ended in 1933 and Lefty took his savings and bought a retail location in a busy section of town and turned the Zebra Room into a bar and grill. Milton is also twenty years old and plays the clarinet. Milton tries to enlist in the Army but is turned down.....
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