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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (27722)	6/6/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Yeah - I will think of you heeheehee

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (27722)	6/6/1999 7:37:00 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

TFRY? Did I miss my big chance at riches last week?????? Birthday parties are one of the prices of paternity. Drink. We were on a Disney cruise. 900 small people-- little tiny, whiny ones who run very fast down the decks and splash through the puddles screaming, while you try to escape and fail, or run into you as you get ready to take the first sip of hot morning coffee, and their mothers say in these sort of helpless, unconcerned voices, "Oh, Austin, you got that lady wet." And I'm thinking, "What is WRONG with you??? Your ugly clonechild should be placed in chains and locked in the attic until puberty". I realized I really don't like other people's little kids much. We watched Austin Powers many times in the stateroom because my boys think it's funny, and we heard every Disney song ever written including the munchkin-esque Someday My Prince Will Come until we were comatose. I did however, spend a delightful morning alone watching Marlon Brando's Streetcar while the guys went diving- I had an ear infection and couldn't go. Unfortunately the tape broke JUST as she was about to say "I have always relied on the kindness of strangers," so your last image of poor Blanche was of her lying on the floor defeated by the ugliness of life and that brute, Stanley. Ruined me for the rest of the day. I kept saying the line, trying to salvage her spirit every time someone did something nice for me. Like when Ammo pulled my chair out at dinner. He said, "Dad, I'm worried about Mom. I think she has Alzheimer's. She doesn't recognize me." There were beautiful meaningful moments all along the way, of course. But I think maybe you pass through stages of life and feel certain things that, once completed, are left behind. At least until grandchildren. The way you lift heavy vehicles off a body pinned underneath, you are fleetingly endowed with the ability to endure small beings and even think they're wonderful at that moment. For instance, I am in the stage of thinking teenagers are a delightful mélange of egoism, sweetness, original thought processes and unique body odor. I love them, but feel sure this too shall pass when Ammo graduates from high school. ANyway, enjoy any temporary illusion available to you, for while you are there, these truly ARE the most wonderful times. It's only later that you're allowed to think, "I LIKED that?" Birthday parties are one of those times that may call for reinforcements for the chimera--- like alcohol or valium.