“Friends are like angels - they lift us up when we forget how to fly.” - Anonymous

From “Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst

December 21

Whenever Lincoln particularly as a young man, attended social functions he was extremely ill at ease around coquettish young women. He did not understand them, felt stupid in their presence, was sure they all thought him ugly. Consequently he either acted the clown or sat with his hands hidden under his knees. Except for his friend Ann Rutledge, Lincoln's closest female relationships as a young man thus far had been with married women who tended to mother him.