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He made that shifting of weight that people do when they abbreviate rising, and put out his hand to shake mine. His hand was faintly oily, and I'm sure that I picked up a trace of garlic and basil for my effort to be friendly, but that was okay.
"I'm Tol Sedik," he informed me. "Want any?" He gestured at the remaining food.
"No," I said. "I just ate." He shrugged and went back to his papers, or pretended to. But he'd shown a flash of recognition when I had stated my name, and I was now in at least part of his attention range.
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"Long enough," he replied. "We're up to our armpits in some excise tax scams, at least that's what I think. There are a couple of wholesalers who keep getting robbed just before tax inventory."
"And you think that it's bogus." It wasn't a question.
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"Yeah," he said, not really disappointed at not seeing the mystery missives. "Please do. You'd just interfere with our concentration here. What little of it we have left, I mean."
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Big deal. Maybe there was something to find in the crew of immigrants, but it would take some study. Fortunately, there were only about thirty names on the list, all people who had worked at Luna or orbital biochem research facilities who had immigrated to Venus within the past ten years. Also fortunately, I had nowhere in particular that I needed to be that night.
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"Okay, so what the hell are you?" I asked the box.
I'd given it enough phonemes, I suppose, and it opened for me, a series of seams coming apart that reminded me of Cheryl's method of disrobing a couple of nights previously. It isn't a secure lock mechanism; you can fool it with a recording, after all. It's usually used for things like birthday presents and such like.
Inside, there was a card, and a note. The card had my ugly face holoed into it, and official-looking type surrounding it, with three different kinds of coding strips on the back. The card said, Skyhook Public Investigator, and in parenthesis (Health and Security).
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The note had a scratch stripe on it. I brushed my fingertip across it and the note proved itself to be flash paper. Theatrical. I hoped that Landau was as amused by it as I wasn't.
There was a tap at the door skin and I said, "Yeah, what is it?"
It was Calvin. He handed me something wrapped in chamois cloth. It was heavy.
"I almost forgot," he said. "This was released from evidence yesterday. You're the man, so you get to keep it."
I unwrapped it enough to verify that it was the gun. A shell casing dropped from the bundle, but I caught it with my other hand before it fell to the floor.
"Two spent shells," he said. "Two live ones still remaining. I expect that the shells are worth something, too."
I nodded and held up the spent casing. "These were used to kill a man," I said. "I wonder what a collector would pay for them?"
He grinned. "I hadn't thought of that," he said. "But you're right; that probably ups the ante considerable."
I shrugged. "Or maybe not. Who knows from rich people?"
He gave me a look, but didn't say whatever he was thinking. "Well," he said. "Let me know how it turns out."
"You'll find out anyway," I told him, though I'm not sure what I meant by it.
I went over the list of names in the Skyfall file, one after another, hoping to find someone who looked to have been sufficiently inside to be able to shed some light on what the hell sort of thing had killed Lucy Dahl. When a disease that looks that much like another -- previous and artificial -- disease shows up, the first thing you wonder is if somebody got cute.
There were thirty-two names on the list, and most of them were nobodies. I'd asked for janitors, and I got four of those. Also six kitchen employees, and a plumber. The rest were mostly lab technicians. People who rise high in the scientific community are not prone to emigrate to a world where brewing accounts for a large fraction of the microbiology.
Of the thirty-two names, five were dead. I couldn't tell if they'd been included by mistake, or because Landau had thought that maybe their deaths had been related to this business. It didn't matter really. I looked through the dead files and there was nothing much to them. Two had died en route to Venus. That's not all that unusual; a sunsail voyage is long and stressful. Two others had been old; the last one had died in an accident, falling down a long access ramp in gravity that was four times what he was used to. It's a wonder more Lunar transplants don't go that way.
I had five names that looked like they might really know something and I went through their files, one by one. I was resolved to just make a cold call on one or two of them, to maybe ask a few background questions and see how they reacted.
Something kept nagging at me, though, and I couldn't put my finger on it. After a while, I just leaned back and let my mind drift. Slowly, the nagging began to settle on the dead files, on one in particular, in fact. The name of the guy was Quittel, Jorgen Quittel, which is not a common name. So why did it seem familiar?
I'd only been over one other list of names in the previous few weeks, and that was the list of General Delivery drops for Carnival. People without personal comm units still need to get messages sometimes, so there are semi-private services that take their mail. Some of them will accept object deliveries also, but that usually costs more, since it's harder to store bulk than comm files.
Carnival had two such services, little hole-in-the-wall shops where you paid a fee and collected anything that had come in for you since the last time you'd read your mail. Both would provide hard copy, and both had the usual encoded safeguards on the mail, which meant that only Skyhook or the police could eavesdrop. The really paranoid used secondary codes, some of them not worth the effort to break.
About half of the inhabitants of Carnival used the General Delivery shops, about six hundred, all told. I'd gone over the list a few times, as part of my general strategy of familiarizing myself with the landscape, and I'd looked up several personal files of citizens I'd encountered there. You can never tell when a little background edge will come in handy.
I called up the main General Delivery list once more, and scanned down to the Qs, all five of them: Quach, Quan, Quintana, Quinn -- and Quittel, first name Daniel.
Okay, that was quite a coincidence. So I jumped down a couple levels of detail in Jorgen Quittel's personal file, and there it was, one brother, born on the same date: Daniel Quittel.
They were fraternal twins. Fraternal twins are pretty rare on Luna; the parents have to have a double birth permit. Identical twins aren't even allowed to come to term except as part of some experimental project, and then they are rarely born to the same woman; one of the fetuses will be transferred to a different mother to carry to term. That wasn't the case here, so my first wild thought--that the wrong brother had been reported dead--couldn't be correct.
I put in another search to the main database in Skyhook for the file on Daniel Quittel. It only took a couple of seconds, and I briefly wondered just how high a level my new access code was. Brushing the thought aside, I began to read about Daniel Quittel.
Like his brother, he'd gone into medicine, but unlike Jorgen, Daniel had opted for clinical psychology. Graduate of Copernicus, middle of his class, so he was less of a star performer than his brother. He wound up in Luna City Psychiatric, the largest such institution on Luna. He had been an ordinary counselor and dispenser of psychotropic drugs. Three years previously, he'd left his job and shipped to Venus, on the very same sunship that had carried his brother, the same voyage upon which Jorgen had died.
All of which made the hairs on the back of my neck stand to attention. If Jorgen had somehow been affected by our mystery virus, and if Daniel had given him an anti-psychotic . . .
Jorgen's death certificate had been issued by the ship's physician, and it gave the cause of death as congestive heart failure. Whether or not that could have been mistaken for anaphylaxis, I couldn't say; there might have been some covering up in any case. Whatever else, it suddenly seemed like a good idea to give a try at finding Daniel Quittel, c/o General Delivery, Carnival Cluster.
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Diane Wood Middlebrook,
author of
The Double Life of Billy Tipton
Biographer Diane Wood Middlebrook's Suits Me tells the story of a brilliant deceiver who lived and loved in two skins, one of each sex. Jazz musician Billy Tipton grew up as Dorothy Tipton but lived as a man from the time she was nineteen until she died at the age of seventy-four. Tipton's death made news all over the world, not because he was celebrated as a musician but because of the scale of his deception – he had been married to five women and had reared several adopted children.
Ms. Middlebrook, one of our most brilliant biographers, shares her thoughts on this remarkable biography in our exclusive Jerry Jazz Musician interview. Interview hosted by Jerry Jazz Musician publisher Joe Maita.
Billy Tipton
JJM I am very intrigued by your career path. You wrote a book on the poet Anne Sexton, and you are currently writing a book on the English poet Ted Hughes Was there a particular biography that you read as a child that made you want to be a biographer?
DWM I hadn't thought of writing biographies – the answer is no. I was invited to write the biography of Anne Sexton after I had written a small article about her. The editor who was helping her estate find a biographer read it and indicated that he liked the way I wrote about her and thought that I might be able to write for a general audience. That was the first time it ever occurred to me that I might do a book like this. I had gotten very interested in women's careers, and I thought that Anne Sexton's career was an interesting story, to say the least- the improbable development of a woman who had no education and a major mental illness, and you wonder "how did she do it?" So, I sort of backed into it. While I was working on Anne Sexton, I got tremendously interested in biographies in general. I think it's a wonderful way to read and write history.
JJM The world is your oyster there are so many people you can write about.
DWM And they take you place you could never go. It's a great way of life for me, and it's a particular way of writing that I like very much.
JJM Who was your childhood hero?
DWM Wonderwoman!
JJM No! Why was Wonderwoman your hero?
DWM I think because I was really smitten by the idea of goddesses and gods. I used to have one of those childhood fantasies where I was really a goddess. My mother named me very fancifully – my middle name is Helen, my first name is Diane. She was thinking of the moon goddess. I was a first child too, so I was an indulged, contented child with a certain sense of entitlement, so I used to have this fantasy that I was actually a goddess. Wonderwoman came about as close as they got. I used to buy those thick Wonderwoman comic books
JJM You grew up in Spokane, Washington, where Billy Tipton lived the last part of his life. Do you or your folks have any memories of Billy Tipton? Were they able to help you during the course of the book in terms of remembering Tipton?
DWM People in Spokane remember Billy very well, including my father, but just as a professional. He was very well known because he was one of those people who was really an entertainer. Nightclubs really made use of musicians to get people to drink. Certainly there was a dress-up side of dancing and glamour, but the people would really love the night club act he developed, as well as being quite a good musician. So, he had lots of work. At the time my parents were going out dancing in Spokane he was actually a booking agent and he didn't have a steady gig at a nightclub. He would fill in and occasionally play gigs himself, and when he did, people would always come to see him because he was well known. When he died, people were absolutely dumbfounded to discover he was a she
JJM What amazes me about the book is the deception he played, and his ability to surround himself with people who he could manipulate in some way, including himself, because, after all, he died of an ulcer. I'm sure a lot of that was because of him worrying about being discovered
DWM I think that's probably correct.
JJM What drove you to actually pursue this subject for a biography?
DWM I encountered Billy's obituary in the New York Times in February, 1989. I saw this story over coffee that had a dateline of Spokane, Washington. I looked at it, read the story, and was absolutely struck with disbelief! The story itself was very compelling..it had a kind of touching quality to it. The obituary told the story of a man named Billy Tipton, who at the time of his death it was discovered that he had a woman's body. His wife and his two sons were among those that didn't know that Billy was female. One of the sons is widely quoted as saying, "Well, he will always be Dad to me." Right away, there is the voyeuristic fascination with how can someone not be known by a wife and sons to be the wrong sex? Then, it hit me that the story itself is a very ordinary story, that we are connected by relationships, and our relationships are projected on to who we think they are. So when the son said to me "He will always be Dad to me" it didn't matter whether it was a female person, and I thought right away that, yes, that's correct – "Father" is a relationship, it's not a sex.
JJM That's the beauty to the story There's a lot of sadness to the story too, frankly
DWM Yes, but on the whole it isn't a sad story. Let's go back to the other part of the story for a second the children were adopted, and the wife claimed that she never had sex with Billy, which as we find out in our culture is not altogether that impossible to imagine. We have totally conventional notions of what all these roles mean, and you understand there are lots and lots of differences in people, and lots of ways to constellate relationships, partnerships, and all kinds of things. If you begin immediately to say each of the things being talked about is a role, whether it be age or sex, its all performance That, of course, is what my book is about.
JJM A major theme of the book is the frustration that female musicians had in getting recognition and being taken seriously Before he was Billy Tipton, she was Dorothy Tipton. She was sexually attracted to women, but socially attracted to work normally reserved for men. What was the most influential event in Dorothy's youth that may have attracted her to these roles normally reserved for men?
DWM I see her as actually having been liberated by the depression, because she was raised in a family where people played the piano. She lived with an aunt who had money and who got her a very good musical education, thinking she would become a concert pianist or possibly a piano teacher – someone who could have an artistic career. That aunt who raised her was herself quite an interesting woman she owned race horses and had hotels in the red light district in Kansas City, which is where Dorothy got her musical education. Kansas City at that time was the absolute center of jazz because they just didn't have prohibition in Kansas City
JJM Yes, that's where Lester Young and Count Basie and Charlie Parker were playing in those days
DWM That's right, and Mary Lou Williams too. There were female musicians, of course, and good ones. There was jazz all around Dorothy in Kansas City and she taught herself. Her brother was not clear whether she ever had lessons on the saxophone. She was a very good musician, one who practiced all the time. She was from a very respected family. The depression started changing things around, and when Dorothy was old enough to get away from her aunt, she went back to Oklahoma City and started looking for work as a piano player. She found she couldn't get work as a female, as playing in bars was not thought to be a place for a lady to be
JM If she had grown up somewhere other than that part of the country – Oklahoma, Missouri – like Oakland or Pittsburgh, would this story ever have happened?
DWM Probably not. Oklahoma City, at the time Dorothy started playing the piano, was oil rich. The place that supported a musician's life during the depression was bars, because people came to dance on bars Bar culture supported the life of the musician, long before there were night clubs or radio. Musicians would gravitate to where there was enough disposable income to spend in bars. That means large urban centers and it had to be a place where there was tolerance for people having a good time.
JM Not to mention tolerance for societal outcasts or for people who are different. It's hard for me to imagine Oklahoma of the 1930's being tolerant
DWM Oklahoma is a very conservative place, but it is also a place with a lot of give and take. If you want things to go your way, you have to let people have things their own way too, so they don't exercise their bigotry on each other. Oklahoma was a dry state well into the 1950's, but there were always places that were under the control of sheriffs and elected officials where drinking would go on. There was graft, corruption – in other words, there was protection placed on those serving alcohol. So, there were these parts of Oklahoma City where it was well known that you could always get a drink, and that's where the nightclubs were.
JM Dorothy's childhood seemed to be surrounded by men incapable of doing the right thing for their wives and children. Was her cross-dressing an opportunity to do the right thing as a male for the family?
DWM I don't think so. I think Dorothy actually put on men's clothes for the first time because she wanted to get an audition.
JJM So it was that simple? She needed the work?
DWM Yes. I also think that she really liked it. She was an unconventional person. She liked to joke, she liked fooling people, clearly. There was a "high" in it for her. I didn't use the word "lesbian" about Dorothy in my book, but Dorothy never had anything but girlfriends. I think she was discovering her own sexuality at the same time that she started getting work as a musician, and finding that the only way to get work was to wear guy's clothes. I think that she found that the adapting she had to do to get a job put in her way other kinds of things she had a taste for too, and that she fell into the life of a show person. The show business world was definitely not conventionally bourgeois, and had always been full of artistic types.
JJM She also had a quite an introduction to the show business world through the Teagarden family. She was in a rooming house run by Jack Teagarden's mother?
DWM Yes, Jack Teagarden's mother Helen and her family moved up from Texas to Oklahoma City after Jack's father died. Helen ran a boarding house there. Jack Teagarden was on the road at a very early age – 16 I believe – but he always came back to see his mother, so there were musicians coming and going through the boarding house all the time. Dorothy had a room in that rooming house during 1934, and was very well remembered by Norma Teagarden, Jack's sister. She knew Dorothy was female who just wore men's clothes, and Norma didn't really know what to say about it. Norma had more chances to get work because of the family she came from. In any case, the Teagarden's were really the centerpiece of the music business in Oklahoma City, and Dorothy (Billy) Tipton was living right in that house. Later, Billy used to say that she played music with Jack Teagarden. She (Dorothy) had probably sat in when Jack was visiting his mother.
JJM It was during this time that Dorothy met a woman named Non-Earl. That was Billy's first love, correct?
DWM Yes, absolutely. Non Earl was a real party girl. She was described by the musicians that remembered them as an 'older woman'. Billy was 16 or 17, and Non Earl was 30. She was definitely in her prime when she met Billy. She had been a dancer in marathons in the early part of the depression, so she knew all the musicians and the bands. She would be what they called a "kitty girl", and she would go around and pass the hat and get people to make requests and share the money with the band. It's quite clear that she and Billy hit it off they lived together for six years or so.
JJM Was she the only love of Billy's life that really knew from the start that Billy was female?
DWM Probably so. Non Earl died in 1967, so she was not available for an interview, but if there were one person I wish I could have gotten to know, it would have been her. She was my favorite character. I think she introduced Billy to her considerable sexual expertise, and Billy learned her oral sex techniques from Non Earl. But also, I think that Non Earl must have liberated in Billy her own sexual confidence. I think Billy must have enjoyed sex a good deal
JJM As long as he kept his corset on, and he kept the lights out
DWM But that was only later, when I was able to talk to women who had sex with Billy who didn't know that Billy was female. That meant, of course, Billy taking big risks. At one point, I was interviewing a woman who had been known as Mrs. Tipton, Maryann, and I said to her, "What did you think Billy was using? Did you think he had some kind of dildo?" She said, "Honey, I can hardly wait to read your book. I thought it was a penis!" Clearly Billy had an active sex life, and he practiced some kind of penetration with them that was very gratifying and that they never doubted that it was a man.
JJM Billy and Non Earl moved from Oklahoma City to Joplin, Missouri. Did they make this move to get away from an area where Billy would be so easily recognized?
DWM Well, this is all speculation, of course Billy was a good enough musician to get a job in a swing band, particularly since a lot of musicians were off to war. Billy claimed to have been damaged in a car accident, where his ribs were crushed and had to wear bindings. But he made a very good-looking guy, glamorous, really, and rather easily got a job in a nightclub in Joplin called the Cotton Club. By then, Non Earl was not a great asset for Billy, and I think he just kind of shed her and moved on to more glamorous younger women.
JJM Yes, and as you said, he made a good-looking man, and his initial trials as a man were quite successful in attracting women. His woman friend that he made after Non Earl was an 18 year old named June, and she was the first woman to claim she didn't know she was involved with a cross dresser.
DWM Yes, although she later told Billy's brother that she had found out about this.
JJM How did she find out?
DWM I don't know, and I was never able to find June. Billy's brother (also named William) only had the memory of her telling him, and talking to him about Billy. Billy's brother was not happy about this, he was a very respectable engineer, and was embarrassed by Dorothy's life and choices and rather unforgiving of the way he thought she dishonored the family. But he was very dutiful in Billy's memory, and in the conversations that he had with me I think he tried to come to some sort of understanding of what would have motivated his sister to do these things. So, he didn't have clear or full or fluent sorts of memories that he would share with me. I had to know quite a lot before he would respond and confirm what I had to say or ask him about He didn't volunteer much.
JJM I have to assume that there was some bitterness around this. Of all the names Dorothy could have named herself, to name herself the same name that her brother why not David or Ralph or something? Her father's name was William
DWM Yes, her father was a very well known aviator in Oklahoma City, and he named his only son, Dorothy's brother, after him, so, Dorothy just took the name. It is an androgynous name, and it's a good jazz name.
JJM There was another interesting character that you wrote about in the book, and this goes back to when they were in Oklahoma City. One of the first bands Billy was a part of was called the Banner Cavaliers, an imitation Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. There was a character who was the station manager at the radio station where the band played whose name was Buck, who herself was a cross dresser. What was that all about?
DWM Yes, wasn't that wild? I think one of the things that I got out of these guys when I expressed my amazement at it, more than once, I was taken aside and told that there were the "straight" people, and there were the "show" people, as in entertainers. In the world of the show people, you got a lot of variety, and who cares if people are different. To them, that was the explanation of all of this. If we take a sort of educated, late 20th Century look at the study of gay culture, it is really fairly well understood that it has always survived in show places – that is people who gravitate to it from the arts are people who frequently have an ambiguous or multiple sexuality as part of their creativity, that the arts are the "place of this", and that cultural space has always been allotted to them. So, Buck was a character, as people would say, and she had her perfect niche doing these radio broadcasts where she would bring live musicians in. Everyone was quite fascinated about the spectacle of Buck
JJM There are so many interesting characters in this story, but I guess no matter what someone's sexual preference, if you do a biography on a show person, you are going to have these kinds of stories
DWM It's true that people are really different from what you think they are. That's another delightful thing about writing biography – people are so opaque and so full of secret places.
JJM During the Joplin, Missouri days, Billy left June and took up with another woman named Betty. They went west to the Portland, Oregon area. The West Coast at that time was an up and coming jazz area. What did he hope to do with his career as result of coming west?
DWM He went west to work with a guy he got acquainted with in Joplin, who was a Texan, and was the bandleader of the band Billy was with, George Mayer. Meyer was more of a mover and shaker than Billy was at the time. The two of them were very complimentary. They both were "goof-offs", and they worked together very well. They had the same kind of charm and both were fastidious dressers. They had a lot to hide, each of them. Apparently, George never did know that Billy was female. He must have been so totally self-absorbed that they didn't notice the existence of others, and I think this was the type of person Billy chose to be around. George went out west and had developed a tour circuit. He got in touch with Billy and asked him if he would come and work with him. I also think that things got a bit uncomfortable for Billy if he was in one place too long. I never was able to actually put my finger on any experience of the kind that I know he must have had, which is people coming up to him, saying "I know what you are doing." I am sure some people must have known and given him a hard time. There were real opportunities that sprang up on the West Coast during the Second World War because of all the nightclubs that opened near the shipyards and army bases. There were enough clubs to make a circuit for a musician. They would never be any place for more than a couple of weeks. The Portland area was a very good one.
JJM He also went to LA for a little while, and one of the important things that happened to him was that he was on television for 15 minutes in Santa Barbara, long enough for an executive from Tops Records to see him. He liked him and got him involved in some sort of a contract creating easy listening records. Was this fulfilling his promise or did he basically take what he could get at this point?
DWM They all thought that if you got one record contract, you got more. It was good experience. I talked to two other members of the trio who are still living about this episode, and they were very excited about it, but the record company they were recording for would sell records "by the yard" in department stores, where the equipment was sold. In a way, it was viewed as generic music and it was never going to make him into a star. Still, there was always the thought that this was like a step in a ladder.
JJM Reading that a couple of his heroes at that time were Chet Baker and Art Pepper these guys were hardly following the same path that Billy was in virtually every aspect of their lives
DWM Baker was an Oklahoman
JJM True. That may be part of why Billy identified with him. The record he recorded looked as if it were made specifically for discounters like White Front department stores. I have to imagine that was a stepping stone for Billy, or it was the only thing he could get.
DWM Billy really did have a hard time making a living, too. He was a very professional and disciplined man, but he never had a lot of money, he lived on what he had.
JJM You mean the $31 he made in royalties on his record wasn't enough to sustain him? Billy was offered jobs in larger communities, one being Reno, Nevada. My sense of it is that people in more sophisticated communities saw through Billy. For example, you mentioned how San Franciscans knew right away they were dealing with a woman dressed as a man. Did he feel that being in a community like Reno would expose him, therefore he wanted to get back to a simpler environment?
DWM At the time he turned down a contract to play in Reno, the city was just being built. It was being built by the mob! They did background checks, and it was not going to be easy to pass as a man there. There would be a lot of scrutiny before getting a job in a nightclub. There was also the fact it was really on the road between Oklahoma and Los Angeles. People would drop by, and he would tend to get run into by people who used to know him in his past. There was also the increasing sophistication of the audiences. I think Billy decided he had better stay out of the way of fame. Moving to Spokane, Washington, where he had a job offer from the guy who had been managing him, his booking agent, Dave Sobol, he decided that would be a good thing to do.
JJM His playing days, slowly but surely started dwindling, although there was a time where he was earning some pretty good money between the commissions he made at the talent agency and the $800 or so he was making in performance fees. In those days, late 50's, early 60's, that was a pretty good living.
DWM Yes, it wasn't bad. He did a lot of jobs. He was interested in settling down. He bought a nice house in Spokane in a very nice part of town and started adopting children with his wife, Kitty, who had been a stripper. She quit the business to become a homemaker. So, I think what he wanted was a nice middle class life.
JJM The adoptions were at his urgency
DWM Yes, and they were arranged by Kitty, with women who had illegitimate children who were in show business too, and who wanted to give them up. The first son was adopted at birth. The second son adopted when he was a couple years old, and the third son was adopted at birth.
JJM Billy and Kitty were married for 18 years, and there was a series of situations revolving around physical and emotional trauma that Kitty experienced as a child that really required a physical separation. They not only slept in separate bedrooms, but on different floors of the house. Did that simplify Billy's life?
DWM Kitty thought that Billy was only ten years older than she was, but Billy was actually 20 years older. She told me in one of her interviews, "You know, when I finally heard about Billy, I thought, 'My god, when we got married he must have been going through menopause!'" I also thought that Billy was probably ready to just retire at that point.
JJM How many different women did you interview that he was married to?
DWM Three.
JJM Did they feel embarrassed by this at all? Did they feel silly having to admit to you that she is going to write a book and expose how I didn't know that this guy I was married to was actually a woman?
DWM Of course they were! But I wasn't the first person that had talked to them about this. They had been sought out by the journalists. I think I benefited by showing them that I am not a journalist, that I was interested in their own accounts of their own lives and how that fits into the story. The thing that was quite appealing to me about this whole story is that Billy did not make enemies, even of these women that he deceived. First of all, it was a kind of funny class issue. One has to think about the glamour of the performer. Even though this was pretty small time stuff, still a guy on the bandstand who was good looking and cool, nicely dressed and flirtatious, and he turns his eye on "you", you like being admired like that, by someone like Billy. He had an air of superiority over these young women – party girls – they were delighted, they were flattered by Billy's attention. They were also good-hearted women who really seemed to enjoy themselves. Billy was good to them. He had a good education, was well spoken. He was a man who had a rather superior education He made the rules in the house. He insisted on his privacy. None of the women who thought of this afterward felt his requirements were abusive, or doing something fundamentally dishonest to them. It was very odd, they did not feel deceived in any way.
JJM Towards the end of the book, you write about how the final straw of Billy and Kitty's marriage was around their differences in how the children should be raised. Billy was, if anything, lacking in rules and discipline around his children. He didn't really know how to handle his kids
DWM He was very permissive. He was also kind of indifferent to their problems. He always wanted to be liked. He certainly exercised a lot of discipline in his work life, but that was partly his survival technique. He never drank, was professionally very reliable, had guys under him who wouldn't contest his masculinity. He chose people around him who were going to follow in line. With the kids it was different. I don't think he was a particularly good parent, but he was a loving person. I think they got from that the kind of nurturing that can be.
JJM There was an interesting observation from one of Billy's friends, a magician, who said "Billy Tipton should have received an Academy Award for the Best Actor of All Time." When it's all said and done, that's what he was, an accomplished actor
DWM I agree. I think that Billy really had two very large talents, and one of them was musicianship and the other was for mimicry and impersonation. I really got interested in that while I was working on the book because my husband's grandson, from the time he was about 10 years old, has been immensely interested in magic, and is very good at it. I discovered that it is rather easy to fool people, if you are good at that sort of thing! Billy really was a master
JJM Are you happy with the results of the book?
DWM Yes, I am quite pleased, and I was happy to hear that the book is being taught in a course on The History of Sex in America.
JJM That is an accomplishment the rest of us can only fantasize about!
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For those of you who have never heard of the A-Z challenge, let me tell you all about it. This challenge is put on every year by Arlee Bird over at Tossing It Out (It started in 2010) and the idea is to blog every day (except Sundays) and to do it Thematically/Alphabetically. Every day you blog (starting with the letter A on April 1st) according to what letter of the alphabet you are on. It's a blast! (I will still be posting on my running and life in general)
So for example starting April 1st we will blog starting with the letter A. April 2nd we will blog starting with the letter B, and so on. We will blog every day except Sunday. You can write all the posts and schedule them ahead of time or you can write every day. You can have a theme or just wing it. You can even post a recipe or poem. This year I have my A-Z words picked out already and will pre-schedule some...others I will write the day of. This challenge is a fun and informative way to get to know other bloggers in the blogosphere. Feel free to join us or not...just go over to The A-Z Challenge blog and follow the directions. Hope to see ya there. Please do not feel obligated to join in, but do come and visit as usual. I will miss you if you don't. Blessings and hugs.
Godspeed...this comes from the Middle English expression "God spede (you)", a wish for success and fortune for one setting out on an enterprise, voyage, adventure, or travels. It may also mean good luck.
"Limitations only exist if you let them"
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Which Schools Offer Graphic Design Degrees in the San Diego, CA Area?
Find schools in the San Diego, CA, area offering graphic design degree programs and courses. Learn about program requirements and get current tuition rates in the San Diego, CA, area. Schools offering Graphic Design degrees can also be found in these popular choices.
Students near San Diego, CA, can find undergraduate degree programs in graphic design at three public colleges and a private university. Explore these programs and the different specializations they offer.
What You Need to Know
A 2- or 4-year degree is typically sufficient if you intend to pursue a career in graphic design. Both types of degrees in this field of study are offered at four schools in and near San Diego, CA (two schools are found in San Diego, with the other two 15-35 miles from the city). These programs result in an Associate in Science, Associate in Arts or Bachelor of Arts in graphic design.
These programs will focus on various areas of design, including digital illustration, motion graphics, printmaking and lettering. Layout and editing techniques could also be addressed. You will likely have the opportunity to work with design software and other tools. A degree program will also give you the opportunity to develop a portfolio, which could be requested by potential employers during your job search. Some employers might also prefer a 4-year degree.
Completion of a degree program in graphic design could prepare you for a career in advertising, web design, publishing or even computer game design. Find out which program would best suit your needs by reviewing the details in the following article.
Graphic Design Associate's Degree Programs near San Diego, CA
Cuyamaca College
Located just outside of San Diego, CA, Cuyamaca College offers a graphic design associate's degree program that develops your skills in Adobe Photoshop, Flash Web animation and layout design software. You may also be required to complete courses in digital media, Web graphics, digital illustration, typography, drawing and business practices. If you would like to work in a professional environment for school credit, this program offers hands-on training through work experience opportunities. This school also offers related certificate programs in digital photography and Web graphics.
- Program Name: Associate in Science in Graphic Design
- Program Length: 2 years, full-time
- Tuition and Fees: $1,388 per year for CA residents; $7,196 per year for non-residents (2015-2016)
- School Type: 2-year, public; 8,644 students (all undergraduates)
Palomar College
Palomar College can be found about 20 miles north of San Diego, CA, and offers a graphic design associate's degree program that can prepare you for transfer to a 4-year college. During the program, you may be trained in color and light theory, lettering design, new media, advertising, motion graphics, film editing and digital publishing. This program also offers practical experience opportunities through cooperative education and studio courses.
- Program Name: Associate in Arts in Graphic Design
- Program Length: 2 years, full-time
- Tuition and Fees: $1,338 per year for CA residents; $7,078 per year for non-residents (2015-2016)
- School Type: 2-year, public; 24,914 students (all undergraduates)
San Diego City College
San Diego City College's graphic design program features courses covering field-related history, page layout techniques, digital media, illustration and design software. Before you can graduate, you're required to complete a portfolio development course. This program prepares you to transfer to a bachelor's degree program. Students not interested in completing a 2-year program can also enroll in the college's graphic design certificate program.
- Program Name: Associate in Arts in Graphic Design
- Program Length: 2 years, full-time
- Tuition and Fees: $1,142 per year for CA residents; $4,670 per year for non-residents (2015-2016)
- School Type: 2-year, public; 16,298 students (all undergraduates)
Graphic Design Bachelor's Degree Programs near San Diego, CA
Point Loma Nazarene University
This program helps you develop a professional portfolio for entry-level positions while instructing you in graphic design from a Christian point of view. Depending on your concentration, your education may cover topics in promotion management, 2-D and 3-D design, photography, visual symbolism, interactive design, painting and printmaking. All concentrations require you to complete an art internship.
- Program Name: Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design
- Specialization Areas: Art and design, editorial design, illustration, advertising
- Program Length: 4 years, full-time
- Tuition and Fees: $32,400 per year (2015-2016)
- Admission Requirements: Two letters of recommendation (one academic and one spiritual)
- School Type: 4-year, private not-for-profit; 3,374 students (2,568 undergraduate)
Associate's degrees in graphic design can be found at several public, two-year colleges in the San Diego, CA, area, while a bachelor's degree program is offered at the private, four-year Point Loma Nazarene University.
To continue researching, browse degree options below for course curriculum, prerequisites and financial aid information. Or, learn more about the subject by reading the related articles below:


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Its so nice to see how the love for food is spreading all over the world and with so different approaches. This time it was in Prague, Czech Republic.
I saw this place late at night when, as usual, I was looking for a nice Czech place to eat. I could´t miss the big logo and the way they exhibit the meat.
Right a few steps behind you could see the production area, the design was so contemporary thanks to the use of illustration, the arrangement of the equipment and of course the stereo!, I had no doubt that this was the place of some crazy foodies -I could´t do but to identify myself with these guys-.
You could sense the love, the respect and the quality of what they offer and as a foodie or chef, its so helpful to be around of these guys, not just to learn more about food but to hear someones love towards it .
Its a shame it was so late and The Real Meat Society was already closed but I give you the address: náplavní 5 praha or If you know some czech and want to know more about these guys go to The Real Meat Society website.
Foodie fact:
To really understand these theme you should read Harold McGee´s On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Chapter 3 Meat. Its awesome and very easy to understand.
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"Good Night -- Sweet Dreams," is a photo by Kit Brice.
A better name for it might be "A Beautiful Nightmare."
The central pictorial element, the yew tree, is universally known in the west as the primary tree in cemeteries, and as such is a death symbol.
Plus I have always found the moment or hour when the full moon is obscured by clouds and is seen shining behind them as ominous, mildly frightening by itself, and suggestive of death.
There's no denying the beauty of this scene, but it's scary as well.


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Primary goal of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e. V. is the fostering of scientific high-performance computing (HPC) and the sustained development of computer-aided scientific research in Germany and Europe by providing the highest level of HPC expertise and services as well as state-of-the art HPC resources.
To ensure a leading role in the European HPC-Community, the GCS pursues the following goals:
- Provision of state-of-the-art supercomputing resources featuring complementary system architectures to ensure the ongoing enhancement of computer-aided science in Germany.
- Open access for all scientists and researchers to the GCS system environment through a peer-review process evaluating the research's technical and scientific excellence.
- Optimal application and user support for scientists and reseachers of various disciplines based on the specific needs of the individual user.
- High-level education and training of supercomputer users to ensure the most efficient use of the GCS HPC resources.
- Continue to attract and retain highly qualified scientists and engineers by offering state-of-the-art HPC system infrastructures, services and support.
- Supporting Germany's leading position in the realms of scientific and industrial research in fields like automotive, medicine, climate and environment, foundational research, and astronomy, amongst others.
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An essay written to celebrate the life of Patches Reyes
Patches may have gone to the "Great Litter Box in the Sky", but her memory will live forever in cyber space.
Patches died the other day.
Most people reading my opening sentence will conclude: "Patches", must be a pet, probably a cat, no big
deal, he'll get over it.
But the death of my beloved Patches is a big deal and I will not soon get over it.
On a spring day, some twenty years ago, Patches wobbled into my life. A tiny four-week old Calico, she was
my shadow and constant companion. To others my life may have seemed trivial and mundane, but my fluffy dynamo was fascinated
by everything that I did.
When I left for work my furry buddy would follow me to the front door and cry plaintively. To soothe my
guilt over leaving my baby alone in my forlorn apartment, one day I brought home "BW" a mature 20-pound alley cat to keep
her company.
BW waddled from room to room with the diminutive hairball tagging along, running circles around her.
BW tried everything in her power to repel the affections of the pesky kitten, but hissing, spitting and growling noises only
succeeded in making her more determined to win over BW as a playmate.
After two weeks BW finally succumbed to the boundless energy and unrelenting enthusiasm of the little creature
and they became the best of friends. Patches never failed to win over any visitor to my home, whether is was a repairman,
acquaintance or relative.
In my life I've had a parade of jobs, apartments and friends -- Patches was the one constant. She
was always there for me when I came home from work; she had a bottomless reservoir of playfulness, love and affection.
When I moved from San Francisco to Lynchburg four years ago, I brought Patches with me, I never considered
leaving her behind. Patches easily made the transition from apartment-bound city feline to free-wheeling country cat. She
enjoyed playing in the backyard with my dog Midnite and she loved chasing the mice that were foolish enough to venture inside
my house.
One day I was in the living room watching TV and Patches was sitting on the coffee-table. I called
her over to me and she tried twice to jump on the sofa unsuccessfully, I was shocked because even though she was very old,
she still had the energy of a kitten. The next day she was unable to take more than two steps without keeling over, and then
it got to the point where her legs wouldn't support her. The amazing animal who was once a dancing dervish, now
couldn't even stand up.
I had to put Patches to sleep. Yes, Patches died the other day, and it may be no big deal in the great scheme
of things, but in my humble home there was a great emptiness.
I adopted Ebony, a ferocious kitten from the Lynchburg Humane society. She is a holy terror, decorating
my drapes with pin pricks made with her claws, shredding my paper towels and toilet paper, knocking things over and turning
off my computer and refrigerator. She is more of a stalker than a companion, but she is very cute and I'm sure that one day
I will write an essay praising her virtues. At least that's what I keep telling myself. At any rate she hasn't made me forget
Patches, but she is such a troublemaker, I never forget that she is around.
By Robert Paul Reyes
Sweet Dreams Patches
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As expected, Grinspoon opened their show bursting with energy, playing the high-powered and dynamic 'Pressure Tested 1984'. The first track saw the crowd erupt into a frenzy. This energy was again on full display during one of their more peculiar tracks 'DC x 3'. Many people lost their absolute minds during the performance, whilst enthusiastically yelling out 'dead cat' repetitively. It was a surprise to see this one played so early, but it got the fans amped, and that's all that is important.
The initial part of their set saw them perform some of their biggest hits, like the short, yet iconic 'Just Ace' — which was one of my highlights from their let. 'Just Ace' is a staple for all Grinspoon fans and it was a treat to see it live and to witness the fans show the track all the love it deserves. Another one that appeared in their initial part of the set was 'Champion', which was powered with energy and vigour.
The encore was certainly interesting. I mean, I'm not sure we can even really call it an encore, the length of it was the equivalent of another section of the set. Spanning approximately eight songs, the 'encore' saw the excitement and exhilaration continue, both from the fans and the lads on stage. This part of the set included major tracks like 'Hard Act to Follow', 'Chemical Heart' and 'Lost Control'. They ended the night with 'More Than You Are'.
Grinspoon reaffirmed why their presence in Australia's rock scene is necessary and essential. Here's to another incredible 20 years.
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Collecting Student Work
Turnitin (Discouraging Plagiarism)
The university licenses software that "automatically" checks student submissions for authenticity; click the above link to learn how to create a Turnitin assignment.
Creating Assignments
Assignments allow you to create coursework and manage the grades and feedback for each student separately. You can respond to each student separately with comments and attached files. You can distribute assignments to course groups.
Inline Assignment Grading
Instructors can now view student-submitted files "inline," (i.e., in the web browser). This functionality enables instructors to provide feedback including comments and highlights, and directly in the document.
Downloading Assignments (Movie 3:19)
You can download assignment submissions to review them offline instead of reviewing them online in the Grade Center.
Grading Assignments (Movie 3:30)
When an assignment is created, a column is added automatically to the Grade Center. You can access assignments that have been submitted by students and need grading from: the Needs Grading page OR the Grade Center. You have the option to grade assignments anonymously.
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It's possible to remove or delete all student work with a few clicks; click the above link to learn how. NOTE: Once deleted, the student submissions cannot be retrieved.
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- Faculty can request help and training from USC's Enterprise Learning Technologies group by submitting a request to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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CONTACT: Barbara Neal, Executive Director
Phone: 802-828-4911
Vermont 9-1-1 System Status
At approximately 2:44 PM today, the Enhanced 9-1-1 Board became aware of a statewide 9-1-1 outage. Vermont 9-1-1 was unable to receive inbound 9-1-1 calls between 2:36 PM and 3:13 PM. The system is currently operational and 9-1-1 calls are being properly processed.
The 9-1-1 system provider, FairPoint Communications, has provided a log of all callers who attempted to reach 9-1-1 during this outage. Board staff are attempting to contact each of those callers at this time.
This is the second statewide 9-1-1 outage this summer. The first event, on 6/22/2016, was the result of a software coding issue in the call handling software. Preliminary information indicates today's event was similar to the earlier outage and may be related to the text to 9-1-1 functionality.
Text to 9-1-1 capability has been disabled until FairPoint completes its investigation. Attempts to text to Vermont 9-1-1 will result in a bounce-back message indicating the service is not available and directing the texter to place a voice call to 9-1-1. Voice calls to 9-1-1 are processing normally.
Updated information will be released when it becomes available.


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Level: Beginner Sessions: 1 Hours: 3 hours
Project OverviewLearn how to create your own etched designs in Sterling Silver. In this class, you will learn how to transfer your own designs to sterling silver and create a chemical etch.
Bracelet Mandrel, Steel, Oval – For shaping and form metal into a bracelet shape. 2 will be provided to share for all classes. So if you have one, bring it.
Basic hand tools – Any quality is appropriate for my classes. These do not need to be high end or expense.
- Round nose - Typically it is preferred that the round nose be a fine tip. Especially for classes with detailed wire work.
- Chain/needle nose – Tapered jaws for general metal and wire work. Non-serrated are requested for all of my classes. Typically requested for classes to be used for opening and closing jump rings; in which case, 2 pairs are requested or a combination of chain nose and flat nose is suitable.
- Flat nose – Similar to chain nose but the jaws are not tapered. Non-serrated are requested for all of my classes.
Heavy Duty Cutters – Although any heavy duty cutter will work, if they are flush, they will make your work a lot easier. Cutter should be able to cut through 10g wire. (Many cutters imprint their cutting capacity on the inside of the handle.) Keiba and Xuron are recommended.
Magnifier or Optivisor – For almost all classes this is listed as an "As Needed" tool. If you have sight challenges it is recommended that you are properly prepared. For advance stone setting classes this is required! If you decide to use reading glasses consider better than 2.5x.
Ott Light or Task Lamp - This is optional item that is listed for every class. It is up to you to determine whether or not you will need to have one depending on your vision.
Rawhide/Leather Mallet – Shape and flatten metal without marring it. #2 mallet is a standard size. Instructor will provide for every class needed. A yellow nylon mallet may be used in its place, however a rubber one may not.
Side Cutters - Also known as wire cutters or snippers.
For many of my classes I prefer Ultra Flush side cutters because it eases the workload. Ultra flush is the most flush you can buy as opposed to just flush cutters. If you don't own a pair of Ultra Flush cutters, you may want to invest in a good pair either Lindstrom or Swanstrom. There is usually not a different in price between ultra and just flush cutters so why not just buy the best?
The image shows just a side cutter (top) and ultra flush (bottom).
Optional Soldering Kit
Items in this Soldering Kit will be provided for use during the class. If you are interested in ordering a kit please click on the image. Kit includes: Butane torch, butane, 1 tube solder paste, fire tweezers, copper tweezers, Sparex, tripod with mesh, flux, soldering board. (Note: kit will be delivered at class. If you require the kit prior to class please contact us to make arrangements.
Student Files – Standard size is 2/o. For filing metal. . Instructor will provide to share for every class needed.


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Before we begin, the discussion of charitable giving as a tax-planning strategy is in no way intended to imply that charitable giving is strictly a tax-savings vehicle. Charitable giving is a way for individuals to express their values, which is ultimately more important to them than any tax savings.
However, one cannot ignore the tax impact of charitable giving. Understanding the tax implications of charitable giving allows an individual to more accurately assess the true "cost" of making such a contribution. For those looking for ways to give more, this is an important consideration.
First, the type of property donated has an impact on the tax consequences of the donation. If an individual owns appreciated stock, and has held that stock for more than one year, a gift of this stock would result in two benefits to the donor. First, the full value of the stock is allowed as a charitable deduction. In addition, the donor does not have to recognize the appreciation on the stock as income. Thus, the built-in capital gain is not taxed, but the donor receives the full fair market value of the stock as a deduction.
One downside for this type of deduction relates to income limitations. Generally, an individual's donations for the year are deductible up to 50% of that individual's adjusted gross income. In the case of non-cash donations, such as stock donations, that limitation is 30%.
A second consideration is how to make the contribution. For example, an individual may desire to make a very large contribution in one year (for example, in a year in which an individual has a large income event) but does not necessarily know how he or she wants to distribute those donations among various charities. One option would be to utilize a donor-advised fund. A donation to a donor-advised fund is deductible in the year of the contribution, but the funds can be distributed to the charity (or charities) in subsequent years. The donor is allowed to advise on where the contributions eventually go, but he or she does have to give up control of the grant-making process.
Similarly, for those individuals who desire more control, or wish to leave behind a legacy, consideration can be given to the establishment of a private foundation. A private foundation generally has a mission statement to convey the donor's charitable vision. The private foundation will have a board of directors or trustees, including a combination of the donor, donor's family, advisors, and independent parties.
As with a donor-advised fund, contributions to a private foundation are deductible when made to the foundation, even though the grants are made in future years. Cash donations to a private foundation are limited to 30% of adjusted gross income (as opposed to the usual 50% limitation) and non-cash donations are deductible up to 20% of adjusted gross income (as opposed to the usual 30% limitation). Private foundations entail more administration, regulation, and disclosure than a donor-advised fund, so it is crucial that an individual works with a trusted group of advisors during this process. The benefit to the donor is that the private foundation provides that individual with total control over the grant-making process.
As it relates to charitable giving, there is significant flexibility in how gifts can be made, and this article only begins to touch upon the many considerations. For example, for those with charitable intentions and estate-planning concerns, the use of charitable trusts may provide a solution to accomplish both.
If you want to discuss any of these options in more detail, please contact your WK advisor at (573) 442-6171 or (573) 635-6196.


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Peep T.I. "Addresses" Video, the latest visual from T.I.. It dropped on Wednesday, March 13th, 2013.
Tip delivers a visual for his diss record which appeared on his album "Trouble Man." Directed by Clifton Bell.
Peep the new visual for T.I.'s T.I. Feat. Pharell "What You Know (Live At SXSW)" Video.
If you're feeling this, make sure to hit up T.I.'s profile page for the latest info, news, songs, and mixtapes. Check out T.I.'s Facebook and Twitter.


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Ever since getting an Apple TV I've been using the remote app on my iPhone which I highly recommend. Especially the remote in iOS 12's control center. But if you're lazy like me sometimes you just want to be able to use your Macbook to control your Apple TV.
The Mac App you'll need for this is 1Keyboard (App Store Link, $9.99). 1Keyboard turns your Mac into a remote keyboard so you can sync it to your Apple TV.
It's almost as simple as installing the app, after installing you'll be able to add a new device. Click "Add a new device…" then head over to Settings > General > Bluetooth on your Apple TV and you'll be able to sync to your Mac.
After that you'll be able to click Apple TV from the 1Keyboard menu at anytime and control it with the arrows and enter/esc buttons.
A good idea once you've had this setup is to set your Apple TV to never sleep by going to Settings > General > Sleep: never.


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From the Eyes of a Child…
"From the eyes of a Child" is a touching piece written by an adoptive father Wayne Gabany while picking up his son from Russia. It is written from the point of view of his adoptive child. It accurately depicts what a adoptive child feels and sees when his new parents. Wayne and Nancy visit him in the orphanage during the Adoption process. It is a must read for any parent contemplating a journey to pick up a child. It is a heartwarming eye opener.
Hi. I am a child living in an orphanage in Russia. I might be a boy, I might be a girl. My age doesn't really matter, I might be young, I might be older. I'm not really sure how I ended up living here, but I am pretty sure my mama and papa for some reason couldn't take care of me. I kind of remember them but I am not sure.
Things are ok here. We have food, usually, although we have to eat pretty fast and there never seems to be enough. I have friends here, some I get along with some I don't. I know who those people called the director and doctor are, I see them once in awhile and the doctor gives me candy. There are a few people that take care of me I really like one of them, she plays with me. This is the only life I know, I hear not all kids live like this but I wouldn't know.
Well this is interesting, I am just getting up from my nap and the caregiver I like says my new mama and papa are here to see me. My new mama and papa what does that mean? She takes me to the director's office where there are these two people who are dressed funny. They are smiling at me and the lady has a tear in her eye. I don't know these people, I am afraid. I just got up from my nap, I am sleepy still. They want me to stay with these people, I don't want to. I want to go back to my room with my caregiver whom I know.
Ok, I am with these two people. I have no idea what they are saying, their words all sound funny. I don't understand what they want me to do. I usually don't see men, I am afraid of the man. These people are strangers, I don't like strangers. They brought some stuff with them, I like the bubbles and the one toy but I am still not sure about these people. Oh, finally I get to go back to my room with my friends and caregiver, glad that's over.
These people are here to see me again today? What's going on? It's the same two people, they are still dressed funny but I remember them from yesterday. They have some interesting toys but I am still cautious, just what do these people want. Shall I give them a smile or should I just be quiet? I think I will just be quiet. They still talk funny and I don't understand them, wait what was that? It's a word I know, that word means ball, I know what a ball is they said ball in Russian, that was interesting. They want to hold me and kiss me, I am not used to that, I don't know if I like it. Time to go back to my room, that was kinda fun today, maybe they will see me again tomorrow.
Well these people have seen me a few more times, they are ok I guess. Today the lady is crying and saying goodbye. Goodbye? They just got here. What is going on, they will be back in a month? How long is that? Are they going to leave me like my mama and papa did? I was just getting used to these people. I am sad, very sad.
It's back to my life as normal. Those people left me a stuffed animal. I take it with me everywhere and sleep with it. We don't have our own things here but this is mine. I think about these people, are they coming back? They said a lot of things to me but I didn't understand much, I am only a child.
It feels like a long time since I saw those people my caretaker called mama and papa, but they are back again today. Are they going to leave for a long time again? What? They are taking me away from here? Away from everything and everyone I know? Away from the caretaker I like? Why? Will I get to come back? I don't know what is going on I am scared, very scared, I hardly know these people. I am going to cry.
I am in a strange room with them, they call it a hotel. I didn't like the bath, it's not how my caretaker washed me. I don't want to sleep here, where is my bed? Where are my friends? I am still scared.
This isn't getting any better, I am now on an airplane, I have never been on an airplane before. It feels like I have been on the plane a very long time. I'm restless, I'm cranky, my stomach is sick because I am not used to eating the food these people have given me. I want to go home.
I am now in this big house. There are other people there all looking at me and wanting to hold me. I am so tired I want to sleep. It's light outside but I want to sleep. There is a dog here, I have never been close to a dog before, I am scared. They say I am finally home but this is not my home, I have been taken away from everything I know. Everything is so strange, I can't understand what anyone says. I know this person called mama and I want to be close to her and have her protect me from all this that is so strange to me.
It's going to take me a long time to adjust to this place, a long time for me to trust this mama and papa. A long time to get used to where I am, who all these people are and figure out what they are saying and how I can talk to them. Things are so strange and different here, I miss where I was and the routine, I am tired, I am scared. I have trouble going to sleep in this place that I do not know. I am scared, my body feels tired. The food tastes funny here. I may do things that are not right but I don't know any better and I am only a child, please forgive me. Please don't be too quick to judge that I have problems, remember you have ripped me away from the life I know and thrown me into a whole new world that is so strange to me, I am scared. I am only a child. Please if you see any problems with me you can't handle yourself find a professional who can. I need time, a lot of time to adjust. I need love, a lot of love to adjust. I, I need my mama and papa, I am scared, I am only a child.
Written by: Wayne Gary Gabany


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One can almost see the meeting of studio executives that preceded the production of Tim Burton's new film of Alice in Wonderland. A half dozen cocaine-addled Bard graduates blinking through the aftereffects of yet another night of silicone implanted satyriasis and quietly musing on the possibilities inherent in Lewis Carroll's century-old fairy tale. "What," says one, "if instead of being a little girl, Alice is, like, a hot girl-power feminist teenager?" "Cool!" says another, "and what if like, everything that happened in the book happened, like, before." "Yeah!" says another, "and what if, instead of just wandering around seeing weird things, she has to go Lord of the Ringson, like, something…?" "Awesome!" says a third, "and what if, like, at the end, the Mad Hatter dances like Michael Jackson? That would be so cool." At this point, someone calls to find out if Johnny Depp is available.
And so it went, one imagines, until the big budget, 3-D, Dolby Sensurround travesty of one of the most beloved pieces of British whimsy literature was completed; leaving the Walt Disney studios a great deal richer and its viewers considerably poorer in every sense of the word.