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- From: richh@netcom.com (richh)
- Subject: RICHH: JUST NOT RIGHT
- Message-ID: <d!pm_gr.richh@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 23:53:56 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- News item:
-
- A Santa Ana, California woman poured rubbing alcohol on her
- cancer-ridden husband and set him afire--burning over thirty
- percent of his body--because he ate her chocolate Easter bunny,
- police said.
- The woman, who said she only meant to scare him, went shopping
- and didn't call paramedics until eight hours after torching her
- husband.
- In a jailhouse interview she said she got her first good night
- of sleep in years , because at home her husband constantly watches
- television and needs to be fed and have his diapers changed.
-
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-
- Honey, I still love you.
- I guess I always will.
- Baby, please come back.
- I need a change and my
- Fingers can't do the phone.
-
- You could have left the tv on.
- It means a lot to me.
- Little things like that I
- Appreciate, you know.
- Can you hear me? Am I speaking?
-
- You know what I remember most
- Of all? Times I would stand
- In the doorway and watch you
- Combing out your hair. You
- Still have beautiful hair.
-
- And the way I held you when they played a slow one, back in
- school. I know you liked *that*. When we were alone, later, you
- always wanted me to start by slow-dancing with you. I didn't mind.
- God, when was the last time? Must have been at the Kelley boy's
- wedding. When was that? Well, I imagine they have some of their
- own by now. In fact, didn't you say just the other day that you
- had seen--When *was* that? When was their wedding? Was it 5 years
- ago? Ten? Was it last week?
- Do *you* ever wish we'd had some of our own? I know you told
- me, straight away from the start, how you were not the maternal
- type. I knew that going in. I accepted it and it was fine. I'd
- have done anything for ya, you know. I still would. But *gosh*,
- you know?
- Gosh.
- *That's* a funny smell.
- The bed didn't catch. That's good. Guess it's just about
- gone out. You know, doll, if you'd have told me you wanted that
- chocolate bunny, I'd have been happy to give it to you.
- All I wanted was a taste of something sweet.
- That's all.
-
- You remember our week in Hawaii? I do. You got *such* a
- burn. I had to rub that ointment onto you for weeks. I expect
- that it's *your* turn now. It was still a fine week. I'd like to
- get back there, one of these days, hon. You know? I imagine you
- would too. Now, when we can both really *appreciate it. Yes,
- that'd be a fine thing.
- How come no one calls us anymore? If someone called I could
- answer it, you know. They'd come around. Or send someone. But no
- one does. It's funny, but you know, all growing up I envied my
- Catholic friends because their families were so *huge* and there
- were always so many things going on. Little ones scampering about.
- *Always*! That's the way to do it, you know. Big families. Lots
- of sons, daughters, cousins. *Cousins!* They have so many
- cousins! And they have all these twice removed things God does
- *anyone* know how *that* thing works?
- Oh, remember that night we stayed up in bed and laughed all
- night about that very thing?! Sure. I can't remember who--was it
- old Pat Kelley again?--but he was just going on and on about how
- this eighteenth cousin, 96 times removed, had been born with
- something wrong with her heart, and how the whole family was
- rallying together to raise money for special treatments she had to
- get? You remember? You were the *best* that night. You did this
- hys*terical* imitation of Pat Kelley--I mean, you really had him
- down cold. I could not stop laughing.
- All night.
- Poor kid. Something wrong with her heart.
- That's bad. I believe you can take anything as long as your
- heart's ok. That's what keeps *me* going you know. I've always
- had a fabulous ticker. I fully expect the rest of me to disappear
- and for you to come home one day and feed Cream of Wheat to just a
- heart wearing a bib.
- Ho! Wouldn't *that* make a funny cartoon? You know what I
- miss? On Sunday mornings, watching you read the comics, and the
- way you laughed. Your *laugh*! I swear to God, if I'd a-ever
- bottled that and sold it, we'd be millionaires right now. We never
- seem to laugh together anymore.
- I miss that.
- Honey, this isn't right. Come back now. Hear?
-
- RICHH
- --well, Sho, was this one more Bret Ellis or more Kilgore Trout?
- --well?
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