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" 'Oh, definitely,' I said 'No one can move forward creatively until they've seen The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffht?¡¯

" 'Yes, you are,' he laughed 'And she does have theot her to watch Black Narcissus ¡¯

" 'Now that's an eerie one,' I said 'I bet she loved it ¡¯

" 'Ask her,' he said 'Here she is, Noble Abelard, give everyone there my love ¡¯

"And so my life ran on for three blissful and action-packed years

"I grew to be six feet four inches in height

"I saw the world's hts I ith ypt and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and as far north as Ireland and Scotland I went as far east as St Petersburg As far west as Morocco and Spain

"There was no great order and no great thrift to the manner in which we traveled Back and forth ent often It had so to do with desire and whim

"Tommy and Nash worked intensely on homework for the school board of Ruby River City But in the e as I did -- froht otherwise have round of the thingsand telling us marvelous stories that had to do with the famous persons connected to monuments, countries, culture and time

"There was such a richness to all of it that I felt a fool for not having yielded to Aunt Queen's requests that I travel norance that I had refused to join her But as she said to cos It was a ti the entire world

"Let me also note that no matter how ed to read Dickens for Nash, and he greatly increased my appreciation of Great Expectations, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop and Little Dorrit I also investigated the Bront? sisters with keen delight, sing Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre If only I had been a better reader I ht have accomplished more I tried hard with Milton, but I couldn't remember what I read of Paradise Lost, nothe odes aloud until I had them memorized

"All was bliss for us as we roamed But not so with everyone In the middle of our second year, Jash her incootten Clem to invest his entire inheritance from Pops in a rock albu tricked him and wanted to sue her

"At Aunt Queen's behest I got on the phone with our lawyer, Grady Breen, and ascertained that Patsy had spent all theof which had cost a rapher, and then all the big cable ive it airtime

"Cle blinders when he sunk his hundred thousand into the deal, and he was, in Grady's words, no fool, but I told Grady to pay him off and be done with it As for Patsy, if she wanted ive it to her

"In closing, I asked Grady if Patsy was having any success at all with her music He replied that she was very successful of late with the good clubs, playing House of Blues all over the country Her albu about three hundred thousand copies But that's nothing coed to sell, and which she needed to sell to attain the fame she wanted She had simply overestimated her name-brand appeal with this video she had made It had been a little too soon for her