How Kucinich found love (gag)

Cleveland Plain Dealer ^ | October 30, 2005 | Evelyn Theiss

[FarmerW]

On May 4, Elizabeth Harper walked with her boss into Dennis Kucinich's Capitol Hill office for a meeting and immediately noticed three things. In the reception area, she saw a visiting nun in white robes. In his inner office sat a shelf bearing an illustration depicting "light consciousness" and a bust of Gandhi.

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She grew up in the 1980s in the tiny English village of North Ockendon, in a cottage where Pea Lane meets Dennis Lane. At Maytree Cottage, she planted flowers, listened to her mother read stories by the wood stove in the winter, and with her younger sister tended stray animals.

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Several hours later, Elizabeth went shopping before leaving for New Mexico. She bought an opal ring - her birthstone. For reasons she can't explain, she decided to call it her "Dennis ring."

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"Mum, you'll never guess who I'm having lunch with - Shirley MacLaine!" Elizabeth put the actress on the phone.

Julia Massey had read MacLaine's memoir, "Out on a Limb." After reading that book in the 1980s, Massey, who had worked as a secretary in London, decided to train to become a healer. She learned how to provide alternative therapies like massage and aromatherapy to clients with health problems. Eventually, she built a healing center called The Sanctuary next to the family cottage.

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Elizabeth's mother was a bit concerned about her daughter's plan. An American politician? In England, people mostly hear about America's conservative political figures. She couldn't imagine Elizabeth with such a man.

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Elizabeth says. "And it's not like I'm some ditsy young thing and he's an old fogey. He has the wisdom of an ancient and the energy of youth."

[paulat]

And there is Maureen Dowd on the lower left.

...sigh!...always the bridesdog and never the bride....

[murdoog]

But it's inevitable that sometimes she will remind you exactly how young she is.

Like when you say something about rotary phones and she says "what's that?"

[E Rocc]

Like when you say something about rotary phones and she says "what's that?"

Or when the TVs are full of John Lennon shooting retrospectives and you mention that Reagan's shooting had more impact on you. Then she asks why Reagan was shot and when you tell her, she looks at you like you said martians did it, and you realize she was born three weeks after it happened.

(Yes, this actually happened).

-Eric