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To: E who wrote (15297)	6/23/2002 7:41:22 PM
From: Poet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

About hotels: let us not forget the fundamental joys of room service and fresh sheets every day. Monitors be damned! You made a great point I hadn't thought about wrt your elderly father's stories. Much of the retelling was about regaining a sense of mastery that he'd had all his life. This jibes SO well with what Bill's mother is doing, as the stories all take place when the important people in her life (her husband, close friends and family of origin) were alive. She'd mentioned this weekend that all her lifelong friends are dead. I'm beginning to think that, apart from the very literal resurrection aspects of these stories, the reclaiming of the mastery of one's own life is probably what's going on with the almost compulsive need to retell the stories. And (she says in her best Viennese accent), you're so lucky to have had a father worthy of adoration. I envy you so.