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

To: Grainne who wrote (32715)	3/18/1999 2:26:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

We can't really know her underlying motivations, as neither can she. But the breakup was unsurprising, given human nature as I've observed it. I predicted that the breakup would be attributed to the stresses of the ordeal. Naturally they had differences in how to handle matters, naturally those and other things caused stresses. The upshot is that it doesn't feel right to them to be together. I had a humorous exchange with someone on the very subject of Paula's career choice. I was making the point that it was a brilliant one. I'll paste it here. It is what I suspect is a realistic picture; one can't know what she knows, one can only speculate about that. But whether she is conscious of what I believe to be a realistic portrayal of her existential life situation now, or not... way to go, Paula, onward and upward. Don't think I don't know, by the way, that some of the things I say distress people. They do, and I understand why. I think people like to believe things that experience should have taught them to look at very closely. Like, when I read that Susan Carpenter MacMillan, Paula's handler or pr person or publicity person or spokes person, has made a certain statement about Paula and her husband and their separation, my life experience tells me that any similarity between her statement and the facts is only one necessitated by what is likely to be made public anyway. Anyway, here is my speculation pasted from a PM. (I guess I can do this w/o permission, since i am the sender!) Please realize this was written in a flippant tone, in a PM. I don't want to rewrite in a more seemly and self protective way, though. Also, don't anybody attack me for being counter-revolutionary with my talk of her needing a man to 'take care of' her. I'm using a certain sort of short hand here. I hope this isn't too offensive to anyone. ------------------------------------ Here's the thing. When Paula is choosing among careers, her choices don't include brain surgery, they are pretty limited. She does have one asset right now of which she's undoubtedly very conscious, though.She is suddenly a whole lot better looking than she was. In fact, she used to be upsettingly awful looking, almost disfigured, so unfortunate was her nose. She did have a good body, though, i've heard tell, and she still has that, and on top of it is now a quite good looking head and, what with her astonishing makeover, good hair and makeup and clothes; and it's all seasoned with fame, no less. So what she needs to do before these assets depreciate is to find a decent man.... to take care of her in the way she feels she can get taken care of now, which is a different way than she felt she could get taken care when she chose her husband, which she had to do when her male constituency was limited by her nose et al. What she needs is a place where she can reasonably expect to meet a lot of guys who have some money. She has undoubtedly gotten a job as a manicurist not in Lorna's Neighborhood Beauty Parlor, but in some good hotel or salon or someplace where guys go who can afford to spend whatever a manicure costs plus a nice tip. And she will get good tips, for being famous and cute. Such an establishment would be happy to have her, she'd be a draw. And she sits there all day enjoying having a pretty face and good body and gently caressing the fingers of one man after another, all men who, unlike her husband, can afford a professional manicure and who will smile appreciatively at her and chat her up and sympathize and notice her charms and ask her out, some of them, and... It'll be heaven." She will find a man soon, in that job; one more suited to what her new self can command in the sexual marketplace.