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He says Jessica wo n't look at him any more . '' `` Reddy is laboring under a false impression , '' said Anne . `` He is head over heels in football practice and has forgotten he ever knew Jessica . As for Hippy , Nora says that he is studying night and day , and that he is actually wearing himself away by burning midnight oil . '' `` Yes , Hippy is studying some this year , '' replied David . `` You see this is our senior year , and we are going to enter the same college next year , if all goes well . You know Hippy never bothered himself much about study , just managed to scrape through .