Pushkin.

It's an early morning in May 1942.

Lee Krasna is in her apartment on 9th Street when she hears someone outside.

Lee opens the door.

It's someone she recognizes.

It was Pollack's brother saying she had to come. It's

brother saying she had to come to the hospital because Pollack had been on a

bender.

Lee doesn't know what to think.

She asks where exactly Jackson is. Here's Mary Gabriel who you heard from in our previous

episodes. He was in such a bad way that he ended up in Bellevue Hospital, New York's infamous

hospital for derelict and mentally infirm.

For years Jackson had tried to stop drinking, but nothing helped for long.

At Bellevue, Lee could see that he was in bad shape.

The man she saw in the bed was not the man she'd come to know.

Lee is speechless for a second. She knew Jackson like to drink, but nothing like this.

She just said pull yourself together.

Lee cleans Jackson. said, pull yourself together.

Lee cleans Jackson up, gets him dressed and holes him into a cab.

Back at his flat, she feeds him milk and eggs. That was the first of what would become a lifetime of such incidents with Lee,

you know, dragging Pollack back from the very edge, nursing him back to life, putting

him on his feet, hoping to God that he continued in the direction he needed to go.

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