She and I were friends on the side as well as the threads, where we eternally redecorated the Freep Mail Room, drab as it was.
We gave it special touches, like the UNWANTED POSTERS I created with Bill and Hill and Ann (Gatling Gun) Lewis and Begala and their cohorts.
Used 'em as dart boards when frustrated or bored..:))
When there was a dispute on how chili should be made, one woman said she'd made a mess of it and biscuits (not cornbread or crackers, she said), the next day I knew what I had to do.
Hailed Angelique and tossed some of the hardened ones from my South Carolina to Arizona and pelted her.
All out war ensued, with an admonition to those in Texas not to stand up, else they be in the line of fire.
Our aim did not match our zeal!
My last mail from her was about that war, and soon after she was sorting and packing to move back to her home in California, I assume to be with her family.
Carlo, she will always be with us in our hearts, and our lives the richer for the time we had.
Angelique - I mourn you did not tell me you were so ill, and that I could not be there to hold your hand.
It is heaven's gain to have you there.
Until we meet again,
