'Wanting to do things on her own instead of being taken care of by her parents, Piper Laurie thinks moving into her own apartment has been the most significant event in her life. "I blush when I think how helpless and irresponsible I was. I never knew how my clothes got to the cleaners or who repaired my shoes. Now I know what it takes to prepare a home-cooked meal, make curtains, repair a leak, raise puppies and get places on time. Having my own place has also given me courage to satisfy whims, no matter how silly. I own a movie camera and I even learned to splice film. I've always wanted to own a candy store, so on my mantel is one long line of candy jars filled with forty-three pounds of jelly beans, and crystal mints. My freezer holds more varieties of ice-cream than anything else." Piper wonders if a husband would put up with this kind of girlish nonsense but adds, "I've got an intellectual side, too. I'm collecting Rembrandt etchings and Alberina glass." Included in her apartment, where she feels she's also learned many things about herself, is a library-size globe Gene Nelson gave her for her birthday. Gene many not be the boy Mrs. Jacobs would have picked for her daughter, but she knows now that Piper must choose alone. It works beautifully.'

Features a picture of PL with two small dogs, and another picture of her splicing movie film.