[Fred Mertz]

Thanks for that 27 year old story.

[YaYa123]

why you ole romantic you! (I just love stuff like that!)

But as to the question of how Doris Day could write so publicly about her relationship with a married man, and YIKES...It ends up in Good Housekeeping magazine! Probably the eternal virgin Doris didn't even consider it adultry, since she wasn't married. And hey!! She was already a geezer by the time she did her television show...maybe the whole "affair" thing was just more Hollywood fiction, and in this case, wishful thinking on her part. At least back then, Hollywood heavyweights had to keep their secrets, secret.

(I'll never forgive Esther Williams for writing in her autobiography that Jeff Chandler was a cross-dresser.) Some things, we just don't need to know.

[Prodigal Daughter]

I was also trying to make the point that Chandra most likely made some grave mistakes and my mother definitely did; whereas you and your son could hardly have foreseen the danger of carbon monoxide poisoning. Not very many people are aware of it, yet I remember when you lost your son, Howlin', and you had a thread warning others about the dangers. I know I took your warning to heart and spread your warning around to relatives. The fact that you could face such a tragedy and still care about other people enough to warn them said a lot about you and may have saved some lives at the same time. I was very humbled when I read of it.

Jesus said, "My people perish for lack of knowledge." In the spiritual realm, it's better to warn and be ridiculed or hated than not to warn.

We may disagree on this (you and me disagreeing? for a change, right? LOL) but I hope you know its nothing personal, (this disagreement and the ones I foresee in the future!). Shalom and God bless you. PD