<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 9/5/2005 8:43:03 PM Central Daylight Time, majestic_cheese@yahoo.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">her dippy West-Coastism <BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">What did you think she'd look like?</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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I thought she'd be younger. Like 20-something. Of course, maybe she IS 27- all that sun turns even young skin into leather.* (Actually she's 41) I also pictured someone more trendy-stylish, and someone with a few visible piercings, some outrageous dress items, etc. More flamboyance.<BR>
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*When I (briefly) lived in Orange County I was amazed at how many people looked like old tobacco pouches- their skin absolutely like alligator leather from cigarettes, sun and drinking. All the neighbor ladies, laying out by the pool every day, looked like the Marlboro Man and had voices like Lou Rawls.<BR>
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