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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (13428)	10/26/1997 5:21:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Mephisto, I think before Jag owners go away for more than a week, they are supposed to drive their cars to the foreign car repair place, for safekeeping. I believe the usual charge for this is about a thousand dollars, to ensure that they are still running when the owner returns. I know that with the Mercedes liking the garage so much, we are usually driving a rental car. The other day I went to the supermarket, and panicked when I came back out to the parking lot and realized I had no idea what color the car I had been driving might be. Very disorienting!! Now we have a beautiful old silver Volvo sedan, with a fresh paint job and a black leather inside which has just been restored. This car looks like it is brand new, and even the trunk is fully carpeted. It looks really nice, and has good karma as well, since its first owners donated it to the Polly Klass Foundation, which helps find abducted and lost children. The person we bought it from purchased at a fund-raising auction there. Unfortunately, his wife did not enjoy driving a stick shift on our steep hills here, so after he poured thousands of dollars into it, he still could not make her happy, and gave up and sold it. There is not much I like more than a car with good karma!!!!! Incidentally, I was reading one of those trashy newspapers at the grocery store, and they were interviewing someone reputed to be Dodi's psychiatrist, who according to the paper produced documentation in the form of appointment books and payment records. This in itself makes me suspicious, since Dodi liked to rip people off, but in any event this is for your amusement only, since it is difficult to verify. Is confidentiality only for the living? So anyway, according to this doctor Dodi had borderline personality disorder, and a host of other serious psychological problems. Like Princess Diana, he had a very lonely childhood, and one example is that he spent his entire eighth birthday in his room. His parents had bought him presents, but were travelling. This is very common among the very rich, for whom parenting does not seem to be much of a priority in many cases--Diana had many of the same experiences. His parents loved him, but were just often busy and gone. According to this report, the result was a very unhappy adult Dodi, who fell in love easily (looking for more of his mommy), but then gradually became insanely jealous and possessive, having his girlfriends followed by detectives, for example, because being insecure he was also very suspicious and untrusting. Then, of course, the women would leave him, which fulfilled his worst imaginings, and he would feel deserted again. This was a pattern he would repeat over and over again with no learning curve, according to the psychiatrist. Of course we also have Brooke Shields, a former girlfriend and a woman I have always perceived of as fairly healthy emotionally, saying Dodi loved to laugh and have fun and was a wonderful boyfriend in many ways. From many accounts, he really loved women. Well, more than you knew before about Dodi, probably, but what is really true?? Since I have nothing further to add, I think I will go water the garden. The mornings and evenings are quite chilly here, but midday it has been really very hot. Hey, what about that blizzard in the Plains states that closed major highways? Has the weather been extreme so far this winter in your neck of the woods?